What is the destiny of the unrighteous?  Christians over the centuries have put forward three major options: eternal conscious torment (traditionalism), temporary torment followed by salvation (universalism), temporary torment followed by destruction (annihilationism).  In this lecture we'll cover the main texts supporting the annihilation of the wicked as well as three logical problems with the traditional view.

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Gen 2.17

 proof

Psalm 37 uses terms to describe the fate of the wicked

v2

wither quickly like the grass

v9

cut off

v10

be no more

v20

perish

v20

vanish like smoke

v22

cut off

v27

reward for good is to live forever

v28

cut off

v34

cut off

v36

passed away

Mal 4.1-3 day is coming that will set them ablaze, they’ll be ashes under your feet

Mat 3.12 burn up chaff [wicked] w/ unquenchable fire

Mat 7.13-14  narrow gate leads to life; broad way leads to destruction

Mat 10.28  destroy body and soul in hell

Mat 13.40-42 all law-breakers thrown into fiery furnace

Mat 18.8-9 better to enter life crippled than to be thrown into eternal fire (hell of fire)

Mat 25.46 eternal punishment vs. eternal life

Gal 6.8

Heb 10.26-27 those who go on sinning will get a fury of fire that will consume

2 Peter 2.6 Sodom&Gomorrah condemned to extinction as example of what happens to ungodly

2 Peter 3.6-7 future destruction is like Noah's flood

Jud 1.6-7  Sodom & Gomorrah are an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire

Romans 5.6 “Christ died for the ungodly”