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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...
Word study on outer darkness
The phrase outer darkness is used only in Matthew 8:12, Matt. 22:13, and Matt. 25:30. There is a possible allusion to the outer darkness found in three other verses: 2 Peter 2:4; 2:17; Jude 6. Outer darkness is the place where the "sons of the kingdom will be cast,"...
Word study on life, zoe
The word ζωή, zoe occurs 135 times in the Greek New Testament. It is used in a singular sense. It is just "life" (John 5:26; Acts 8:33; Rom. 8:38; James 4:14; 1 Pet. 3:10) as well as modifying another word such as eternal life (Matt. 7:14; Mark 9:43; John 3:16), the...
