Thursday, September 12, 2019

Good question …

… Is the “final judgment” really final? | The Christian Century. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)



It has long seemed to me that the notion of an eternal hell suggests that hell is coexistent with God, who is eternal in the sense that He has no beginning and no end. Jesus refers to the everlasting fire. But everlasting is a temporal term — last until the end of time (the eternal being that which transcends time (i.e., God). I think Hart's conclusion has much to recommend it: "the end of history in a final judgment and then, beyond that, the end of judgment in a final reconciliation." C. S. Lewis said that the door to hell is locked from the inside. I do not think hell will last longer than the world.

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