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1. Case sectionS20Final Destiny

   Why No Place Is Prepared for the Unrighteous

   …Related sections and passages - S04, on what eternal punishment means in Matthew 25:46 - S03, on the lake of fire and the second death - S19, on why the two destinies are not treated as opposites - S21, on the tree of life…

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   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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   Intermediate State

   The condition of the dead between death and the resurrection.…

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   Universal Reconciliation

   The view that God will finally reconcile every person to himself, so that punishment after death is corrective and temporary and no one is lost for ever.

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   Universal Reconciliation

   The view that God will finally reconcile every person to himself, so that punishment after death is corrective and no one is lost for ever. This site does not hold it.

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6. Case sectionRB1Roadblock

   Is Conditional Immortality a New Teaching?

   …end of the wicked as the loss of life, and describe it in passing, as though stating something ordinary. The second part carries an inference and should be labelled as one.…

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7. Case sectionS21Final Destiny

   The Tree of Life and Conditional Life

   …the tree healing the nations, which is language about flourishing, and that Revelation itself describes the second death in terms of a state rather than a cessation.…

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   Hades

   The Greek term for the realm of the dead before the resurrection. It is not Gehenna and not the lake of fire, into which Revelation says Hades itself is thrown.

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   Punishment

   …Scripture grades it by what the sinner knew and could have known, and names its final form as death and destruction.

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10. Case sectionRB2Roadblock

    Does the Image of God Make Humans Immortal?

    …That is the biblical claim on this page, and it stands on its own. A second and quite different claim, about how the idea of an inherently immortal soul entered Christian thinking, is…

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11. Case sectionS25Further Reasoning

    How “All in All” Fits After Final Judgment

    …First, each of them is bounded by its own context and none of them teaches that everyone is finally saved. Second, once the first point is granted, the language of unity and of God being all in all reads more comfortably in…

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12. Case sectionP00Preface

    Why This Question Matters

    …God and his gift are worth having, a point taken up in Would Conditional Immortality Weaken Evangelism?. A second distortion runs the other way.…

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13. Case sectionS01Key Text

    Mark 9: Undying Worms and Unquenchable Fire

    …The same holds for the fire. On the picture Revelation gives, the wicked are not the fuel: the lake of fire is already burning before anything is thrown into it.…

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    Hades

    …Death and Hades give up the dead who are in them, and are then themselves thrown into the lake of fire. Whatever Hades is, it is emptied and abolished, so it cannot be anyone’s final state.…

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15. Case sectionS22Final Destiny

    The Biblical Case for Conditional Immortality

    …Four claims carry the argument. Human beings are not immortal by nature. Survival between death and judgment is God sustaining people, not people sustaining themselves.…

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    Luke 12:4-5

    …Defenders of eternal conscious torment read the killing here as the ordinary death of the body, the same death the persecutors can inflict, and take the point of the saying to be the contrast…

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17. Case sectionS23Further Reasoning

    The Day of Judgment

    …That warning sits in the middle of the very chapter the conditionalist argument leans on. Second, the courtroom pattern is entirely natural.…

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18. ObjectionS31Objection

    Would God Destroy His Image-Bearers?

    …If the concern is for the honour of the image, it is not clear that the second option protects it better than the first.…

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    apollumi (ἀπόλλυμι)

    …John 3:16 the same word group supplies the stated alternative to eternal life, where it keeps company with death, not seeing life, passing away and destruction.…

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    Daniel 12:2

    …If the life of the first group is an unending conscious state, the natural reading is that the shame of the second group is an unending conscious state too, otherwise the verse balances a permanent experience against a…

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