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‘Hell’: A Hard Look at a Hard Question: The Fate of the Unrighteous in New Testament Thought is unavailable, but you can change that!

Writing from a position of biblical conservatism, the author examines rigorously some of the many questions which are raised by the doctrine of hell. He presents a convincing and scholarly case for the view that the unrighteous will forfeit resurrection life in the Kingdom of God.

passage the heightened tenor of the Enochian images depicting the fate of evil non-human beings. Another matter worthy of note is the way in which this work uses the term ‘souls’ to refer to the dead. This was an innovation in Jewish literature. The term is not employed in such a fashion in the O.T.,151 though the usage may be found in works such as Wisdom of Solomon.152 This usage, together with the movement towards conceiving of fate without reference to general judgment, are both signs of Hellenistic
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