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   aionios

   The Greek adjective rendered eternal or everlasting. It can mark unending duration and it can mark what belongs to the age to come.

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   Eternal and Everlasting

   …It can mark unending duration and it can mark the age to come, and in the New Testament it often qualifies a result that stands permanently.

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   What Does “Eternal Punishment” Mean?

   …Why Matthew 25:46 pairs two permanent outcomes rather than two continuing activities, and what 2 Thessalonians 1:9 says the punishment is.

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   Eternal Life

   The life of the age to come, given by God through Jesus Christ.…

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   aiōnios (αἰώνιος)

   eternal, everlasting, of the age to come

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6. Case sectionS11Biblical Language

   What Scripture Contrasts with Eternal Life

   The New Testament sets eternal life against perishing, death, passing away, not seeing life, wrath, condemnation, destruction and eternal…

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   Eternal Conscious Torment

   …This site disagrees. It argues that the punishment named in those texts is destruction whose result is permanent, rather than a punishing that continues without end. The disagreement is about what the punishment is.…

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   Eternal Conscious Torment

   The view that the lost are raised and consciously suffer the just judgment of God without end. It has been the majority position of the Western church for many centuries.

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   Matthew 25:31-46

   The sheep and the goats, closing with eternal punishment set against eternal life.

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10. Case sectionS14Biblical Pattern

    Sodom and Gomorrah as the Example

    …What it can mean, and what the history bears out, is that the effect of that fire is permanent. Ordinary fires destroy cities and the cities are rebuilt. These were not, and have not been.…

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    37 Reasons Hell Isn't/Is Forever - Conditional Immortality Is Biblical Not Eternal Conscious Torment

    Phil Welch. 37 Reasons Hell Isn't/Is Forever - Conditional Immortality Is Biblical Not Eternal Conscious Torment. YouTube. 2025-03-06. 28 minutes 32 seconds

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    Introduction to Evangelical Conditionalism: The Doctrine of Eternal Torment Was Not Universal in the Early Church

    Introduction to Evangelical Conditionalism: The Doctrine of Eternal Torment Was Not Universal in the Early Church. Rethinking Hell. 2017-09-27

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    My case for Conditional Immortality/Annihilation (CI) instead of Eternal Conscious Torment (ECT)

    Phil Welch. My case for Conditional Immortality/Annihilation (CI) instead of Eternal Conscious Torment (ECT). Working document, revised through 2026. 2023-03-01

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    Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth Do Not Indicate Eternal Torment

    Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth Do Not Indicate Eternal Torment. Rethinking Hell. 2018-11-28

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    What eternal punishment means

    …"Eternal" here is much better thought of as "permanent", because all the other times you read it in the New Testament you use the concept of permanence, not…

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    Is Annihilation Really Punishment?

    …And even setting aside what is suffered, the permanent and irreversible removal of everything a person could have had is precisely what makes a death sentence the…

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    Daniel 12:2

    The clearest Old Testament statement of a two-outcome resurrection: everlasting life or everlasting contempt.

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    Is Conditional Immortality a New Teaching?

    …writers describe the end of the unrighteous in terms of loss of life rather than unending torment, and eternal conscious torment did not become dominant in the West until considerably later.…

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    The passages usually cited for eternal conscious torment

    are the primary go-to passages used by proponents of Eternal Conscious Torment. Some go as far as to say that these so firmly support the traditional view, that all other…

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    Revelation 20: The Lake of Fire and the Second Death

    …Eternal fire in Jude describes a permanent effect Jude says Sodom and Gomorrah serve as an example by undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.…

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