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Annihilation or Eternal Punishment?
Annihilationism is the view that lost people in hell will be exterminated after they have paid the penalty for their sins. Its proponents offer six main arguments. First is an argument based on the Bible’s use of fire imagery to describe hell. We are told that fire consumes what is thrown into it, and so it will be for the lake of fire (Rev. 19:20; 20:10, 14, 15; 21:8)—it will burn up the wicked so that they no longer exist. Second is an argument based on texts that speak of the lost perishing or being destroyed. Examples include unbelievers perishing … View Resource
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The Deity of Christ & the Church
There is no more important biblical truth for the life and health of the church than the deity of Christ. Although this truth exists in seed form in the Old Testament (Pss. 45:6–7; 110:1; Isa. 9:6; Dan. 7:13–14), it comes to full flower in the New Testament. I marshal five arguments for the deity of Christ: View Resource
Robert Peterson
Dr. Robert A. Peterson is professor of systematic theology at Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis. He is author of Hell on Trial, coauthor of Two Views of Hell, and coeditor of Hell Under Fire.
