In this episode of Rethinking Hell Live, Chris fields audience questions.
Month: July 2020
Rethinking Hell contributors Chris Date and William Tanksley respond to the hosts of the Doctrine and Devotion podcast, who recently critiqued annihilationism in response to an emailer’s question. This episode contains part 2 of Chris and William’s response; listen to episode 143 for part 1.
Rethinking Hell contributors Chris Date and William Tanksley respond to the hosts of the Doctrine and Devotion podcast, who recently critiqued annihilationism in response to an emailer’s question. This episode contains part 1 of Chris and William’s response; listen to episode 144 for part 2.
In this episode of Rethinking Hell Live, Chris Date responds to comments made by eternal-torment-defender Robert Peterson in a 2012 interview at The Journey St. Louis: https://www.youtube.com/user/thejourneystl/search
In this episode of Rethinking Hell Live, Chris Date kicks off a new series called “Bad Arguments For and Against Conditionalism.” In this inaugural installment, he debunks three such arguments, each sometimes offered by defenders of one of the three major views of hell: conditional immortality from Ezekiel’s “the soul who sins shall die”; eternal torment from “he has put eternity into man’s heart” in Ecclesiastes; and universalism from “worm” as blood-letting leech in Jesus’s quote from Isaiah.
In a recent installment of Crossway’s “5 Myths” article series, Mark Jones attempts to debunk what he sees as “5 Myths about Hell.” In so doing, however, Jones misreads a host of biblical texts that support the doctrines of conditional immortality and annihilationism, mistakenly thinking they teach eternal torment. Along the way, he perpetuates five other popular myths about hell, which we at Rethinking Hell debunk below. Continue reading “5 More Myths About Hell: A Response to Mark Jones and Crossway”
Rethinking Hell contributor Chris Date debates traditionalist Ross Burns on Zac Sechler’s “Adherent Apologetics” YouTube channel, debating the question, “Will the Lost Remain Alive in Hell Forever?”
In this episode of Rethinking Hell Live, Chris Date kicks off a new series called “Traditionalists Sounding Like Conditionalists.” First up is Glen Scrivener, who sounds an awful lot like a conditionalist in his discussion with atheist Matt Dillahunty on the Unbelievable? show’s “Big Conversations” series: https://www.premierchristianradio.com.
For years, I have said that two things convinced me of conditional immortality and annihilationism (hereafter, “conditionalism”) more than anything else. First and foremost, I discovered that, with virtually no exception, every proof-text historically cited in support of eternal torment proves upon closer examination to be better support for conditionalism. Second, I was shocked at how poorly thought out traditionalist arguments against conditionalism typically are. Matthew 25:41-46 is a case study in both phenomena, for it is surprisingly powerful support for conditionalism, but when traditionalists dig their heels in, they often resort to highly dubious arguments they wouldn’t countenance in virtually any other context, such as by claiming the Greek preposition εἰς (eis), translated “into,” rules out the annihilation of the finally impenitent. Continue reading “Falling “Into” Error: Grasping at Straws in Matthew 25:46″