Saturday, December 18, 2010

More on Annihiliationism and the Hot Topic of Hell

A series from Edward Fudge on Hell is embedded on the Afterlife | Conditional Immortality, Soul Sleep and Annihilationism website.

Here is the first one

The rest can be viewed Conditional Iimmortality Around the web. I am  looking forward to Edward Fudge's new edition of The Fire that Consumes:

 

Twenty-nine years after publication, a new, completely-revised, third edition of The Fire That Consumes is expected to make its debut at the Christian Scholars Conference. In one of the new features of the book, I interact throughout with seventeen authors of twelve other books that have been published since 1982 in response to The Fire That Consumes. Keep an eye on your future gracEmail family notes for exciting details about this!


Annihiliationism: Is Hell Under Fire?

Warren Prestidge spoke about the new book Hell under FIre

"Why is Universalism so commonly held today even among mainstream Christians? Or, if they don’t actually advocate Universalism, why do so many Christians today, including so many Christian pastors and teachers, pretty much avoid the whole subject of final judgment all together, even though it’s standard, both in the Bible and in all Christian traditions?

And the main reason, surely – or at least one of the two or three main reasons – is that even Christians today are utterly embarrassed by, and in fact ashamed of, the Traditionalist view of hell!And James Packer himself agrees with this. He says: “the deepest motivation in {Universalists’} minds has always been revolt against mainstream belief in endless punishment in hell for some people” (p171). In the first essay in the book, J. Albert Mohler Jr. traces something of the growing moral disquiet about this doctrine during the 19th Century.  He writes: “Of all the articles of accepted Christian orthodoxy that troubled the consciences of Victorian churchmen, none caused more anxiety than the everlasting punishment of the wicked.”

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Hell Under Fire a CIANZ conference address by Warren Prestidge

You can read the rest of the article as well as the latest magazine on the Afterlife | Conditional Immortality, Soul Sleep and Annihilationism website.

Monday, December 6, 2010

Issue 47 of From Death to Life is now available

The Conditional Immortality Association of New Zealand Inc. is a non-profit organization established to promote a Biblical understanding of human nature, life, death and eternity as taught throughout Scripture. From Death to Life is published by www.afterlife.co.nz. The magazine explores Conditional Immortality, also called Soul Sleep and Annihiliationism. Afterlife | Conditional Immortality, Soul Sleep and Annihilationism.

Issue 47 of From Death to Life is now available.