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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. ...

The NIV uses two verbs to describe what will happen to the wicked on that day. “They will be punished” (with everlasting destruction), and they will be “shut out” from the Lord’s presence and power. The second verb is not in the Greek; it is supplied by the translators. But whatever happens will happen “on the day he comes” (v. 10). God will not forever be destroying, but when the destroying is over, the destruction will endure forever. In keeping with teaching of both Old and New Testaments, to
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