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1. Case sectionS20Final Destiny

   Why No Place Is Prepared for the Unrighteous

   In Matthew 25 the righteous inherit a kingdom prepared for them, and the eternal fire was prepared for the devil and his angels. The unrighteous are the only group with no place prepared.…

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2. Case sectionRB3Roadblock

   Does Sin Against an Infinite God Require Infinite Punishment?

   …This matches how we already reason about responsibility. A two year old who draws on the walls in permanent marker is not punished as a teenager would be for the same act.…

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3. Case sectionS01Key Text

   Mark 9: Undying Worms and Unquenchable Fire

   …People who sleep in the dust awake, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.…

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   2 Thessalonians 1:5-10

   Paul names the penalty imposed at the appearing of Christ as eternal destruction.

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   Fire

   …Eternal fire in Jude describes a fire whose effect is permanent, not one still burning today.…

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6. ObjectionS34Objection

   Did Jesus Speak More About Hell Than Heaven?

   The claim is repeated widely and is unlikely to be right, since Jesus speaks often of the kingdom and of eternal life. The specific ratio commonly quoted rests on one popular article whose method is not published, and this…

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   John 3:16

   Perishing set against eternal life, and not seeing life set against wrath that remains.

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   Sodom and Gomorrah

   …names as an example of what is coming for the ungodly and which Jude describes as undergoing a punishment of eternal fire.

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9. ObjectionS29Objection

   Would Conditional Immortality Weaken Evangelism?

   …And on this view the stakes remain absolute: the loss is everything a person could have had, permanently. The truth question separated from the pastoral one, and what actually motivates the call to repentance in…

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10. Case sectionS12Biblical Language

    Where Is Endless Human Torment Stated Plainly?

    …The strongest reply is stated below. The observation The doctrine of eternal conscious torment (ECT) claims that finally condemned human beings remain alive, aware and suffering, for…

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    Perishing

    The word set most often paired with eternal life in the New Testament.…

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    Romans 6:23

    The wages of sin is death, set against eternal life as the free gift of God.

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13. PageStart

    Compare the Views

    Eternal conscious torment, conditional immortality and universal reconciliation set side by side on human…

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14. Case sectionS02Key Text

    Revelation 14: The Smoke of Their Torment

    …It is desolation: the land lies waste from generation to generation and no one passes through it. The everlasting element is the desolation, and the rising smoke is the sign of it.…

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15. ObjectionS31Objection

    Would God Destroy His Image-Bearers?

    …There will be no tainted images in the age to come. On this reading it is all or nothing, and the reason is not indifference to the image but seriousness about…

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    2 Peter 2:6

    …that the cities were destroyed in a day and never rebuilt, so they illustrate a completed destruction with a permanent result rather than a ruin that persists in a fixed state.…

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17. AppendixAPP2Appendix

    The Net Outcome of Humanity Illustration

    …Nothing on this page is offered as evidence for conditional immortality (CI) or against eternal conscious torment (ECT).…

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18. Language noteLanguage note

    dera’on (דֵּרָאוֹן)

    …If Daniel is drawing on the same picture, then everlasting contempt in Daniel 12:2 describes how the unrighteous are permanently regarded rather than what they…

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19. GlossaryGlossary

    Traditionalism

    A common label for the eternal conscious torment position, used because it has been the majority view of the Western church.…

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20. Case sectionS07Biblical Language

    The Wages of Sin Is Death

    …On this account the wage of sin is life permanently severed from its source, a fate the tradition regards as worse, not lighter.…

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