The Narrow Path Ministries

Harry Blamires was a friend of and a student under C.S. Lewis. He wrote a book about Heaven and Hell, in which he assumed the traditional view to be correct. I thought he made a good point that would also possibly answer your question for the extinctionist. Blamires wrote: "A Hitler, a Himmler, an ...

Steve, You wrote.... The extinctionists, by contrast, see a conscious eternal destiny only for those who have met the conditions (in this life) for immortality—namely, faith in Christ. The rest, after their resurrection, and, possibly, suitable punishment, are then rendered extinct. I suppose all of...

As I think about the meaning of the word "eternal" in its strictest sense, it means; 1. without beginning and without end 2. always in existence 3. timeless An eternal truth , for example, is one which has always been true and always will be. "Light overcomes darkness" is an example of an eternal tr...

I think it's unfortunate if CI hasn't been argued for thoroughly here. I'm about to go to bed, but my simplest argument for the CI view is as follows 1) God alone is immortal 2) God gifts eternal life to those 'in Christ' 3) Not everyone is 'in Christ' Matt, While this would make sense from a tradi...

As I see it, this passage is not about what non-christians do (or neglect to do) for christians; rather, Christ is speaking about those in need and how each of us (both christian and non-christian) reacts to their situation. Jesus is not a respecter of persons and has the same wrath for the one self...

Todd, you still believe the judgments of God are for this life only? Do not our observations reveal that many in this life go on sinning grievously throughout their whole lives with no apparent judgments upon them? Job's friends believed Job's suffering was the result of his sin, but Job know that ...

Regarding 1 Tim 4:10, my view is that God punishes no one after death; that the punishments of God and the "Lake of Fire" refer to the negative consquences of sin in this life. In that God is "the Savior of all men" refers to the fact that all will be resurrected and delivered into the "glorious lib...