[expat_panama]

Great post. 

Too bad you couldn't have found say, a USA Today version- shorter, larger font, lots of pictures- for the 'death to Islam' crowd that hangs around here.  But I liked the essay as is..

[maestro]

......This past generation has experienced the movement of men believed to be stalwart evangelicals reaching to defend annihilationism. The well-known ones include John Stott, Clark Pinnock, John Wenham, Philip E. Hughes, Steven Travis, and their numbers (those advocating ?annihilationism?) appear to be growing. Why should this be so, and what is the Biblical ?weight? to be given their arguments? Can it be possible that evangelicalism is being attacked from within by a low view of God and His inspired, infallible, and inerrant word?.....

FYI.....ping!

[tkathy]

I think that the concept of God as an old man sitting on a cloud hurling down judgmental death sentences to anyone who doesn't believe right has hopefully gone away.

[Servant of the 9]

Of course churches deny annihilationism.
Fear of Hell is their bread and butter.

How very few would bother with church or, especially, tithing if there was only a choice between Heaven and nonexistence.

So9

[steve-b]

the endlessness of existence in hell at least dignifies the people there by continuing to respect their autonomy and their intrinsic value as persons

By this argument, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot were the leaders among humanity in extending dignity, respect, and value to their enemies.

[FNU LNU]

Great article. A surprise to find it here. Those interested in this article may well be interested in an article on Gehenna, improperly translated hell, at

www.gospelthemes.com/hell.htm

[aimhigh]

Without judgment, there would be no end of sin. Man can't evolve out of sin. Judgment is coming.

[FierceDraka]

And how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?

How many licks DOES it take to get to the center of a Tootsie Pop?