Conditional Immortality, Soul Sleep and Annihilationism
5 Questions Advocates of the Conventional View of Final Punishment Must Answer by Gallé, James D. What follows below are five questions that I believe advocates of the conventional view of final punishment as everlasting conscious torment need to seriously address before any headway can be made in the “traditionalist”-annihilationist dialogue: What is the ultimate [...]
Imagine if somebody said, “No Christian leaders taught the doctrine of eternal torment prior to Augustine.” That sounds like a pretty bold statement, right? No teachers taught what is now the traditional view of hell back then? None? And yet, it’s no more bold or over-the-top than many of the claims some theologians make in [...]
The teaching that hell is a place where the unrepentant suffer unending conscious torment is often taught by prominent Bible teachers. Just last month, Hank Hanegraaff, the host of the popular Bible Answer man radio show, had a conversation with Lee Strobel, author of the many books including the excellent bestseller, The Case for Christ. [...]
Immortality: The Tree of Life in the Apocalypse & Genesis Does the author of Revelation (John of Patmos1 ) conceive of unrighteous humanity suffering eternally (or “to the ages of ages”; cf. 20:102 )? Does John believe the lost will be rendered immortal? Those who adhere to the traditional belief of the unending conscious torment of [...]
The biblical prophets had a double role. As representatives of the LORD, they were free to pronounce blessing upon the people if God willed it. Often, however, they predicted his impending judgment. John the Baptist was no exception. As the forerunner to the Messiah, he proclaimed the marvelous good news (or gospel) that Christ was [...]
A comment from Alex Greystone Before I became a conditionalist, I always felt a little inconsistent telling someone the good news that everyone–all of your family, friends, everyone you know, everyone in the world is going to be condemned to a fiery hell forever and ever by a just and loving God because of their [...]
Debate topic: “The final punishment of the risen wicked will be annihilation, the permanent end to the conscious existence of the entire person.” http://www.theopologetics.com/2012/06/16/episode-88-death-eternal/ Chris Date, host of the Theopologetics podcast and contributor to the Rethinking Hell blog and podcast, affirms. Joshua Whipps, creator of the Razor’s Kiss blog and author at Choosing Hats, denies. Dee Dee Warren, friend to Chris [...]
(Conditional Immortality Association Conference address May 5th 2012) Introduction Our task for this afternoon is to trace the steps from Genesis through to the development of the NT concept of Gehenna – translated as “hell” in our English Bibles. Many of us will be familiar with the fact that there are also other words which [...]
A troubling question: Must we conclude that God, who gave his Son for sinners, will keep billions of them alive- to torment them without end? This is from The Lanier Library Lecture Series titled The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment by Edward Fudge given Sep [...]
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Republished with permission from Doug Smith at EndlessHellEnded.com. Copyright 2012, all rights reserved. Please visit EndlessHellEnded.com for more information or to request a free copy of the e-book “Endless Hell Ended”. Many of my fellow Christians accept the traditional view of hell because they believe that God’s sense of justice is so superior that we cannot understand why [...]
Here is the video from last year's conference. The transcript is here: Tracing the Road to Gehenna We should be videoing this year's conference … [Read More...]