#conditionalism

[heresylog]

Say, is Annihilationism heresy? (I dont really believe in conditionalism though??)

This is a great question.

[brianchilton]

A Case for an Eternal Hell (Part 3): The Case from Theology and Philosophy

A Case for an Eternal Hell (Part 3): The Case from Theology and Philosophy By: Brian G. Chilton, M.Div., Ph.D. | March 8, 2026 In the past couple of entries of my defense for an eternal hell, we have explored the concept from a biblical and historical perspective. We have looked at the texts of Scripture and the historical theology of the early Patristic writers, along with the four most…

A Case for an Eternal Hell (Part 3): The Case from Theology and Philosophy

[fabien-euskadi]

I look at that piece of cloth and say it's red, because I've been conditioned to call it red. If you'd been conditioned to call it purple, you'd call it purple. The brain is always conditioned by our experience, by our sensory responses - how to argue, how to deny and all the rest of it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti  in “The Future is Now”

[zekevasquez]

A word that has lead to a great misunderstanding of hell, Gehenna! 

[theologicalexploration-blog]

J.P. Moreland on whether or not the soul is immortal

[theologicalexploration-blog]

Ken Bussell, pastor of Our Place Christian Church, gives a case for conditionalism

[rethinkinghell-blog]

Double Jeopardy: Why Raise the Dead, Only to Destroy Them?

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Joseph Dear

Annihilationism and the Resurrection of the Lost

Some have argued that if the lost will be destroyed, that is, if they are not subjected to eternal misery, then it would be pointless for God to resurrect them. Given the context of physicalism or possibly soul-sleep—which of course not all annihilationists hold to—Arthur W. Pink writes the following: “The absurdity and unscripturalness of Annihilationism are easily exposed. If at death, the sinner passes out of existence, why resurrect him in order to annihilate him again?” Consider also what Sinclair B. Ferguson said while preaching at the Desiring God conference for Pastors in 1990. Assuming dualism and conscious punishment in the intermediate state, he argues that the resurrection of the unsaved prior to annihilation “must be viewed as some kind of cynical joke in the heart of this All-Righteous God, that he punishes men and women and then raises them from the dead simply to annihilate them out of all existence.”

While conditionalism is true, we nevertheless know that there will be a resurrection of both saved and unsaved (Daniel 12.2; John 5.28-29), so then what is the response from conditionalists?

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