A Fundamentalist View of Hell

[Bob M]

(04-09-2012 01:11 PM)exOBCstudent Wrote:  That's an interesting view point but still not quite answering the questions and theories I get the more I question this doctrine on Hell.

I haven't read that book but I think it sounds really good. Maybe that book would address some of the thoughts I have. My mother has been studying the doctrine of "Eternal Punishment" since writing her book and has given me lots of food for thought. Some idea that I've never been allowed to think about.

Now I wonder weather or not Hell isn't for only the devil and his angels. I also wonder how fire is supposed to torment a spiritual being if they have no flesh. If so would sitting around a campfire keep evil spirits away?

I guess I'm looking for a more literal discussion of the subject.

The resurrection in the end times is for believers and unbelievers. We will have bodies, kind of like Jesus post-resurrection body. That is how fire factors in.

I agree that many of the Fundy ideas are far fetched, but saying that hell was added when translations were made is not the answer. The Greek texts have hell, hades, tartarus, lake of fire. And the thought that there is no escape once you die is pretty well backed up by the Bible. It is appointed to man once to die, and after that the judgment.

There are a few well-known evangelicals who have started with a belief in hell and then moved to a belief in universalism or anihhilationism. Clark Pinnock is the best known. He ended up believing that everyone eventually goes to heaven.