Occasionally, some annihilationists pose the argument that God is holy and will not allow evil to exist forever. Therefore, the wicked will be annihilated. But this argument amounts to nothing more than wishful thinking based on an opinion. The holiness of God is his...
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Annihilationism
Eternal Conscious Torment would mean that God is not just to punish finite sin infinitely
Sometimes conditionalists argue that it would be unjust for God to punish someone for an infinite amount of time because of finite sins committed in their lifetime. They base their argument on the limited nature of that sin. They argue that when a person sins, such as...
Eternal Conscious Torment is too horrible and monstrous to be true
Some conditionalists present an argument that the idea of eternal conscious torment is too horrible to be true. Unfortunately, such an argument is based on subjective emotion. Let me [Clark Pinnock] say at the outset that I consider the concept of hell as endless...
Eternal Conscious Torment makes God unloving
Though it is not a very common argument, some annihilationists state God would be unloving to torment someone forever. They say that since God is love (1 John 4:8), it cannot be that God would allow such a horrible thing. First, this argument is a subjective appeal to...
Eternal conscious torment does not benefit God nor the one being punished.
The problem with the idea that eternal conscious torment does not benefit God or the one that God punishes is that it mistakenly assumes there must be a benefit to God and to those punished. Furthermore, I have not yet heard what the conditionalist means by benefit. ...
Eternal Conscious Torment makes God immoral
One of the complaints raised by conditionalists against the teaching of eternal conscious torment (ECT) is that it makes God immoral. They say that it is wrong for someone to suffer for eternity, in utter agony, for finite sins committed here on earth. Therefore, to...
Examining soul sleep and its problems
Among conditionalists, soul sleep is the position that upon death the human soul enters a state of unconsciousness “soul sleep,” the view that death is a state of total unconsciousness, rather than survival in heaven, hell, or purgatory."[fn]Rethinking Hell: Readings...
God receiving Jesus’ spirit proves continued conscious existence after death
The person of Jesus is critical to the issue of conditional immortality. In all my research, I have not yet seen where a conditionalist addresses the issue that I'm raising here. Perhaps it has been addressed, but I haven't found it. Now, before I present it, I need...
Word Study on death, apothnesko, sorted by verse
The Greek word ἀποθνήσκω, apothnesko occurs 111 times in the New Testament. Basically, it means death, to die. It has both literal and figurative meanings depending on usage. Verses that deal specifically with physical death would be (Matt. 8:32; Mark 5:35; Luke...
Problems with anthropological physicalism/materialism
"Evangelical conditionalists also differ in terms of what we believe the Bible says about the constitution of human beings, and also about whether people are conscious in the intermediate state between death and resurrection. Some are anthropological physicalists or...