How Can Eternal Conscious Torment Be Biblical?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Mike Lii are answering a question about eternal conscious torment. This answer involves a discussion in Luke’s Gospel about the rich man and Lazarus. What is going to be the nature of the eternal state for the unregenerate? Bob and Mike have some thoughts and
How Can a Loving God Send Anyone to Hell? Also: What Is Hell Like?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling are answering at least three questions about hell. There is a lot of teaching about hell that does not match up with what the Bible says. So what does the Bible say about it all? Please listen to this episode to find out.

What Edward Fudge Can’t Believe about The Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31)

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Now that our revised The Grace New Testament Commentary is out, I can go back to finishing up two or three book projects, such as on the “atonement” and “hell.” My book on hell will, so far (I can still be convinced of a different view), defend eternal conscious torment (ECT)—though not the ECT of
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Given Eternal Conscious Torment, Is God’s Justice Ever Satisfied?

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A moral objection to eternal conscious torment (ECT) is that if sinners are tormented in hell for all eternity (or, to be more precise, the lake of fire), then God’s justice is never satisfied. Think of it like a mortgage—at some point, you pay it off and satisfy the debt. Or, with a prison sentence,
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The Rich Man, Lazarus, and Samuel

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One of the central texts in the debate over hell is Luke 16—the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus. Actually, whether or not this is a parable is part of the debate. People who deny eternal conscious torment deny that Jesus’ story depicts a real situation. For example, many annihilationists want to deny it
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Where Did Abraham Go When He Died (Gen 25:8-9; Luke 16:22-23)?

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I am about a third of the way into writing my book about hell, tentatively entitled, Final Punishment: A Biblical Case for Conscious Eternal Torment. I’m hoping to finish by the 2019 National Conference. There is so much interesting Biblical information about death and the afterlife in the Bible. The picture is far more complicated
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Eternal Existence vs Eternal Life

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In my discussions with annihilationists, one of the conceptual roadblocks I’ve encountered is an inability to distinguish between eternal existence and having eternal life. Some annihilationists reason this way: “To have eternal life means to exist forever. Only believers have eternal life, therefore only believers will exist forever. Since unbelievers lack eternal life, they will
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