Conditional Immortality, Soul Sleep and Annihilationism
(Part Two of Chapter 3 The Death State) Asleep in Christ In the New Testament, the “sleep” metaphor for death is taken up some 19 times. Examples: Matt. 9:24, I Thessalonians 5:10 (Greek katheudo); Acts 7:60, Acts 13:36, I Cor. 11:30, 15:6 and 15:18 (Greek koimasthai). Unfortunately, the NRSV often obscures the point by translating, simply, “died”.1 [...]
(Part One of Chapter 3 The Death State) According to the Bible, the dead, whether Christian or non-Christian, good or evil, saved or lost, are neither suffering in “hell”, nor labouring in “purgatory”, nor rejoicing in “heaven”. Rather, they have entirely ceased to function. Without consciousness, they await the resurrection of the dead at the [...]
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 on the Saturday 11th May 10:45am to 3pm Beasts and Super-beasts feel the Heat Mark your diaries and send in or email your forms please! note also The Gift of Life Workshop by [...]
Jefferson and Penny Vann will be visiting New Zealand in May and during that time will be presenting a one-day workshop on conditionalist doctrine on the 18th May. This is open to anyone who is interested in exploring evangelical conditionalism, more details can be found : The Gift of Life Jefferson Vann is a regular [...]
2013 CIANZ Conference Saturday 11th May 10:45am to 3pm Location: “The Parnell”, Quality Hotel Barry Court , 10-20 Gladstone Rd , Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand. Speaker: Dr. David Richmond Topic: Beasts and Super-beasts feel the Heat Will a loving and merciful God condemn millions to suffer torment for all eternity ? Dr. David Richmond is [...]
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 [...]
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What happens at death? ( Continued from Part one ) “DUST” Genesis 2:7 tells us three things about ourselves. Let us examine each in turn, in the light of Bible teaching in general. First: “man” (Hebrew ‘adham) was “formed” by God “of dust (‘aphar) from the ground (‘adhamah)”. “Man” (in the generic sense), not only “man’s [...]
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. [...]
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...]
