few evangelicals. By contrast, annihilationism has gained adherents.7 This view, also known as conditional immortality, or conditionalism for short, holds that the wicked will be cast into hell to suffer for their sins. When they have paid the debt for their sins, God will exterminate them so that they will exist no more. We distinguish universalism and annihilationism, but oppose both of them because of Scripture’s clear teaching that the punishment of hell is never-ending. We can only summarize
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