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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...