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There are many who find the doctrine of Hell disturbing and uncomfortable. It sits uneasily with many Christians, and is a doctrine that for many preachers, gathers dust, filed away somewhere quiet. For those who find Hell a problem, a far more comfortable option has been redeveloped, and has gathered support in recent years. It is annihilationism, an idea that proposes that rather than the lost...

for a developed theological approach. Packer, Davies, Erickson, Peterson, and Carson have come closer to filling this gap. Packer, Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, recognized the importance of systematic theology to this debate.57 After examining the teaching of the New Testament on Hell, Packer proposed the use of particular terminology for speaking of future punishment and outlined some parameters for developing the doctrine of Hell. Upon that
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