Some conditionalists believe that when a person dies, he ceases to exist and is then later resurrected to be judged. But this is a problem. Please consider these quotes from conditionalists, also known as annihilationists. "The first man was created when the dust of...
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Annihilationism
Fire burns the wicked until they are consumed, then they are annihilated
One of the arguments raised by conditionalists is that when the Scriptures speaks weeping and gnashing of teeth, it is referring to one of two things. The first is where conditionalists have told me that the weeping and gnashing of teeth is what the wicked will...
Eternal fire is not eternal. Instead, God as the source is eternal
One of the weaker arguments proposed by those who hold to annihilation/conditionalism deals with the phrase "eternal fire." Since Jesus speaks of eternal fire, as does Jude, and since people are cast into eternal fire, how does the annihilationist interpret this?...
Edward Fudge’s teaching that when death occurs the soul is deprived of life, leads to heresy
The late Edward William Fudge (d. 2017) was a strong proponent of conditionalism, the idea that upon final judgment, the wicked cease to exist. But he also taught that when the human person dies physically, his soul is deprived of life. This necessarily leads to...
Edward Fudge and eternal salvation, redemption, judgment, destruction, and punishment
This is a quote from Edward Fudge, one of the best-known annihilationists. "We have seen this in regard to eternal salvation (not an eternal act of saving), eternal redemption (not an eternal process of redeeming), eternal judgment (not an eternal act of judging),...
Fudge’s doctrine of punishment then annihilation has a problem
The late Edward Fudge (d. 2017), who many proponents of conditionalism appeal to for support of their position, taught that a person is annihilated after he has suffered for his sins for an appropriate amount of time. But this has a problem. "...when God destroys both...
Edward Fudge says “apollumi’ mostly refers to death. That is misleading
Edward William Fudge is one of the best-known conditionalists. He wrote a book called The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment. It is an in-depth support of annihilationism. Following is a quote from Mr. Fudge that...
If the sinner is punished and satisfies the law, then shouldn’t he go to heaven?
There is a view within conditionalism held by some who maintain that after a person dies without receiving Christ, he undergoes a period of punishment that corresponds to the sins that he committed while on earth. Then, after the required amount of suffering is...
Philosophical challenges to the conditionalist view of eternal punishment being nonexistence
Those who hold to conditional immortality state that God's everlasting punishment is God's act of annihilating the wicked. Is non-existence the same thing as everlasting punishment? Conditionalists cannot logically defend the idea that a person who does not exist is...
Word study on prosopon, presence, face
The Greek word πρόσωπον prósōpon occurs 76 times in the New Testament and is translated into the English (New American Standard Bible) using 18 different words. This is important in the context of annihilationism as the word appears in 2 Thess. 1:9, "These will pay...