Rethinking Hell Rethinking Hell
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Rethinking Hell is a central resource for a view on Hell called Conditional Immortality (a.k.a. conditionalism or annihilationism). Focusing on this biblical view as held by many Evangelical Christians, we interview notable proponents, respond to the challenges of critics, present the stories of people who once held to the traditional view but are now rethinking hell, and much more.
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Episode 157: The Bad Place, with J. Webb Mealy (Part 2)
Rethinking Hell contributors William Tanksley and Darren Clark interview J. Webb Mealy about his book, The Bad Place. In this part 2 of their discussion, they discuss the application of Mealy's five principles for interpreting the Book of Revelation.
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J. Webb Mealy's book The Bad Place: Or, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Hell, but Were Afraid to Ask, on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Place-Everything-always-wanted-ebook/dp/B09NKJ2XNB/ Mealy's Amazon author's page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/J.-Webb-Mealy/author/B00J8VOI4G Mealy's presentation, "In Christ All Will Be Made Alive: Jesus Ransom Every Human Being from Death," given at the sixth annual Rethinking Hell Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z1dWx4tLSs Mealy's presentation, "Five Principles for Determining Literalness in the Book of Revelation," given at the eighth annual Rethinking Hell Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kcNYx7aESs -
Episode 156: The Bad Place, with J. Webb Mealy (Part 1)
Rethinking Hell contributors William Tanksley and Darren Clark interview J. Webb Mealy about his book, The Bad Place. In this part 1 of their discussion, Mealy summarizes the chapters of his book and then outlines his five principles of interpreting the Book of Revelation.
Links:
J. Webb Mealy's book The Bad Place: Or, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Hell, but Were Afraid to Ask, on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Place-Everything-always-wanted-ebook/dp/B09NKJ2XNB/ Mealy's Amazon author's page: https://www.amazon.com/stores/J.-Webb-Mealy/author/B00J8VOI4G Mealy's presentation, "In Christ All Will Be Made Alive: Jesus Ransom Every Human Being from Death," given at the sixth annual Rethinking Hell Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Z1dWx4tLSs Mealy's presentation, "Five Principles for Determining Literalness in the Book of Revelation," given at the eighth annual Rethinking Hell Conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kcNYx7aESs -
Episode 155: Keep CARM and Carry On: Responding to Matt Slick and CARM.org (Part 6)–The Straw Men of "Soul Sleep" and Intermediate State (Continued)
Rethinking Hell contributors Peter Grice and Chris Date join Darren Clark to continue a series of podcast episodes responding to Matt Slick of CARM.org. In this sixth episode of the series, Darren, Peter, and Chris continue discussing how Slick insists upon conflating physicalism and "soul sleep" with conditional immortality and annihilationism to erect a straw man easily burned down, as they began to do in the previous episode.
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Matt Slick's annihilationism landing page at CARM.org: https://carm.org/annihilationism -
Episode 154: Keep CARM and Carry On: Responding to Matt Slick and CARM.org (Part 5)–The Straw Men of "Soul Sleep" and Intermediate State
Rethinking Hell contributors Peter Grice and Chris Date join Darren Clark to continue a series of podcast episodes responding to Matt Slick of CARM.org. In this fifth episode of the series, Darren, Peter, and Chris begin discussing how Slick insists upon conflating physicalism and "soul sleep" with conditional immortality and annihilationism to erect a straw man easily burned down.
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Matt Slick's annihilationism landing page at CARM.org: https://carm.org/annihilationism -
Episode 153: Keep CARM and Carry On: Responding to Matt Slick and CARM.org (Part 4)–Redefining Our Basic Terms and Beliefs (Continued)
Rethinking Hell contributors Peter Grice and Chris Date join Darren Clark to continue a series of podcast episodes responding to Matt Slick of CARM.org. In this fourth episode of the series, Darren, Peter, and Chris continue discussing how Slick misrepresents conditionalism and annihilationism in the definitions he offers of various terms and of our beliefs.
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Matt Slick's annihilationism landing page at CARM.org: https://carm.org/annihilationism -
Episode 152: Keep CARM and Carry On: Responding to Matt Slick and CARM.org (Part 3)–Redefining Our Basic Terms and Beliefs
Rethinking Hell contributors Peter Grice and Chris Date join Darren Clark to continue a series of podcast episodes responding to Matt Slick of CARM.org. In this third episode of the series, Darren, Peter, and Chris discuss how Slick misrepresents conditionalism and annihilationism in the definitions he offers of various terms and of our beliefs.
Links:
Matt Slick's annihilationism landing page at CARM.org: https://carm.org/annihilationism
Customer Reviews
No eternal torment?!?
How will anyone see how loving and kind the One True God is if we don’t lie about YHWH’s character and threaten everyone with Eternal Conscious Torture?!?
Nice stuff!
Listening to the back-catalog now, this is an amazing sustained dive into this particular theological topic. Good stuff!
What is the real fruit of this doctrine?
You mean to tell me I can live a Godless life spent indulging in all the desires of my flesh and all that I receive as a just reward of my sin is I cease to exist? Sounds like a pretty good deal. Someone tell John the Baptist he can stop preaching repentance and all the stuff about fleeing the wrath to come. For that matter someone tell Jesus he had it wrong too. All that being cast into outer darkness where there is gnashing of teeth… turns out that gnashing teeth don’t exist when one ceases to exist. What of Lazarus and the rich man? What about Isaiah 14:9-15 pretty clear what is happening there. What fruit does this doctrine produce? Answer a reason for me to not worry much about eternity. Flee this doctrine flee the coming wrath of eternal judgment looming over head run to the mercy Jesus provided through his blood.