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The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment is unavailable, but you can change that!

Evangelical Christians affirm together that a dreadful destiny awaits those who reject God’s grace throughout life. According to the traditional view, that destiny will involve unending conscious torment in hell. However, believers are increasingly questioning that understanding, as both unbiblical and inconsistent with the character of God revealed in the Scriptures and in the man Jesus Christ. ...

of the “immortal soul” rests entirely in the hands of the Creator. They said these things when talking about the soul itself, but when they talked about final punishment, their reasoning was inconsistent with what they had said about the soul.17 The immortality of the soul became a subject of intense controversy during the Reformation, but the convergence of Calvin’s vehemence, Luther’s reticence, and the antipathy of both men toward the Anabaptists, resulted in the inclusion of Catholic traditionalism
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