This video is about annihilationism, sometimes called conditional immortality, is the idea that those who are damned to hell are ultimately destroyed or killed and cease to exist. I attempt four goals:
- to triage annihilationism
- to steelman annihilationism
- to explain why I’m not convinced at this point in my study
- offer concluding pastoral thoughts
The video especially focuses on the language of eternal torment in Revelation 14 and Revelation 20.
My concluding thoughts especially draw from CS Lewis, and I finish with this quote:
“In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: ‘What are you asking God to do?’ to wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.”
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