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"...fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."  — Matthew 10:28

  • FINAL END of the WICKED
    • A growing host of scholars bear witness to the evidence for the wicked's final total destruction rather than the traditional view of unending conscious torture.
  • DESTRUCTION of the IMPENITENT
    • As in so many matters, for better or worse, it was Augustine who gave the church its standard way of thinking about hell, a way which would become dominant for the next millennium and a half.
  • SHEOL - OLD TESTAMENT
    • The vast majority of biblical references to the intermediate state are in the Old Testament. By the time the Old Testament was completed, a theological consensus was clearly revealed.
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  • PAUL'S ANTHROPOLOGY
    • An interpretation that is more in line with the other anthropological references of Paul and his Hebrew upbringing is to interpret body, soul and spirit as a type of Hebrew parallelism intended to emphasize the whole person.
  • IMMORTALITY - A GIFT FROM GOD
    • Man was driven out of Eden " lest he should put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever,"—language quite meaningless if Adam was an immortal being, and could never die.
  • THE ORIGIN OF HELL-FIRE
    • The concept of a soul within us that cannot die first became a ‘Christian’ doctrine at the end of the second century AD.
     
    Final End of the Wicked

    A growing host of scholars bear witness to the evidence for the wicked's final total destruction rather than the traditional view of unending conscious torture.
     
    Immortality - A Gift From God

    Man was driven out of Eden "lest he should put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever,"—language quite meaningless if Adam was an immortal being, and could never die.
     
    Destruction of the Impenitent

    As in so many matters, for better or worse, it was Augustine who gave the church its standard way of thinking about hell, a way which would become dominant for the next millennium and a half.
     
    Sheol in the Old Testament

    The vast majority of biblical references to the intermediate state are in the Old Testament. By the time the Old Testament was completed, a theological consensus was clearly revealed.
     

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    John Stott - Argument for Annihilationism

    I want to repudiate with all the vehemence of which I am capable the glibness, what almost appears to be the glee, with which some Evangelicals speak about hell.
     
    Refutation of Universalism - Constable

    No language can express too strongly our conviction of the danger as well as the error of this view. It is the old story of human thought from one extreme to its opposite. The truth always lies between the two.
     
    The Hypothesis of Conditional Immortality - William R. Huntington

    Search the Scriptures through and through, my friends, and point, if you can, to a single sentence in which it is directly asserted that man is a being who will inevitably exist forever.
     
    The Rich Man, Lazarus, & the Afterlife

    This story was not obtained from the Bible, for the Old Testament contains nothing resembling it. However, we do find it in the Jewish Talmud before the time of Jesus.
     
    Doctrine of Immortality in the Early Church

    An in-depth study on the early church writers - Apostolic, Sub-Apostolic, and Ante-Nicene Fathers of the first, second and third centuries - revealing their thoughts on immortality and the Conditionalist view.
     
    The Nature of Hell

    We encourage traditionalist and conditionalist evangelicals to pursue agreement on the matter of hell... As they do so, we call upon them to maintain constructive dialogue and respectful relationships, even when their differences seem intractable.
     
    Unquenchable Fire

    The greek historian, Eusebius, in two places, uses the very words of Matt. 3:12, - unquenchable fire - which has been translated as, 'an immense or intense fire,' in which certain Christians were burnt in Alexandria, by their heathen persecutors.
     
    Destroyed For Ever

    An Examination of the Debates Concerning Conditional Immortality — The main aim of this article is to present the various arguments and highlight certain themes that need further attention.
     
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