OK, fine, let’s do this.
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The text of the article addresses the arguments fairly well, I believe.
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Not really. Some of its points are made simply by ignoring the annihilationist view.
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For all our culture’s self-assured sophistication, the Scripture is pretty clear that hell exists, the inhabitants thereof are conscious, and it isn’t a place where annihilation is the end goal.
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It’s not clear at all. A simple once-over of the Bible verse list in the Wikipedia article on annihilitionism proves that.
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Mercy and justice are two irrevocable attributes of God. Some receive mercy, some receive justice. No one receives injustice.
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There is no mercy in being annihilated. To be shown on Judgment Day the very thing you decided to throw away - eternal life - is justice. To be shown on Judgment Day that you can’t be trusted with immortality and its implications - and then to have it taken away - is justice.
The only reasons I can think of for more punishment than that are
1) They believe the soul is immortal (to which I reply Matthew 10:28),
2) They take comfort somehow in thought of others suffering forever with horrific pain.
Now, if you want to go further with me, I have some questions to ask after your next insistence that all who don’t believe as you believe will burn in anguish and pain forever in Hell.
SDA?
Mat 10:28 is not a statement that there is no life after death.
No one who has truly accepted Salvation would hold such a thought.
yes, it is pretty clear. not necessarily comprehensive since it had to fit publication constraints. but the source site, run by those educated in the languages of the original text and in theology, are a wee bit more trustworthy than those who cite wikipedia as a fount of knowledge.
bye.