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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.

saw this as a matter of logical necessity: if eternal life is unending so too must be eternal punishment.94 Augustine was in no doubt regarding the motive for the punishment. Punishment was neither purificatory, nor corrective, nor a matter of intrinsic consequence: it was intentionally retributive. To make retribution for sin was God’s prime purpose in dealing with condemned humanity. The point of punishment was to recompense evil and for this recompense to be known.95 It was recompense both for
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