Conditional Immortality, Soul Sleep and Annihilationism
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 [...]
Let my soul live, and it shall praise You; And let Your judgments help me. (Psalm 119:175 NKJV). In a long acrostic poem which mostly praises the word of God, an unknown psalmist asks the LORD to keep him alive, so that he can continue praising him, and continue learning from him. It seems a [...]
One of the earliest texts that we conditionalists turn to for support of our outlandish theories about human mortality is Genesis 3:22. Some modern translations treat the text as God making a prohibition against human access to the tree of life: “And the LORD God said, “Now that the man has become like one of [...]
A friend recently posted a quote from Dave Hunt, who said: “The choice we face is not, as many imagine, between heaven and hell. Rather, the choice is between heaven and this world. Even a fool would exchange hell for heaven; but only the wise will exchange this world for heaven.” – An Urgent Call [...]
Apologist Dinesh D’Souza spent years studying how the various cultures of the world viewed the afterlife. Among his conclusions was that there was remarkable similarity among the three “Abrahamic” religions. He said “… in all three cases (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam) there is an official teaching and an unofficial teaching. … The official teaching is [...]
Lots of wonderful posts and the podcast at Rethinking Hell From the blogsphere Immortality Reconsidered What the conditionalist view of hell is not Some thoughts on hell And I really appreciated this post, which addresses the issue that if hell is not eternal conscious torment why bother telling people about Jesus? Christianity is not built [...]
Bill Mounce, NT Greek Scholar, noted on his blog an increase interest in the words and grammar related to the afterlife. “I have been receiving requests lately about words and grammar that all relate to the issue of annihilationism and potentially universalism. I don’t know if these connections are explicit in the mind of the [...]
A few links from around the web, please leave others that might be of interest to our readers in the comments : Rethinking Hell: Episode 7: Traditional Objections Answered with Chris Date Have you heard? Episode 4 The case for annihilationism with Glenn Peoples Glenn Peoples posts on Afterlife can be found here Why I am considering the [...]
In the news recently Muslims are protesting the shaming of their prophet Unless you’ve been intentionally avoiding all forms of news media over the last several months, you know that around the world Muslims have been protesting about a low budget film that makes fun of their prophet, Muhammad. We’ve seen vandalism, violence, killing, and [...]
Episode 5: Erasing Hell with Preston Sprinkle A great interview with Dr. Preston who co- authored Erasing Hell. { see Erasing Hell Review on Afterlife by Jefferson Vann and Conditionalism.net/blog ’s review of Erasing Hell ( which is mentioned in the interview) } Dr. Preston Sprinkle now leans to conditionalism but is still undecided at the moment. He makes mention of E Earle [...]
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...]
