From Medium: What Annihilationists Don’t Want You to Know About the Unbeliever’s Punishment

What the Bible says about the eternal state of unbelievers is dramatically different from what annihilationists say.Photo by Guido Jansen on UnsplashAnnihilationism is the view that after the final judgment, those who are not saved are completely destroyed — body and soul — so that they no longer exist. Proponents of this view overemphasize language in the Bible that appears to describe the unbeliever’s punishment with such finality. Various explanations are then propounded to explain the Bible’s description of the unbeliever’s punishment as eternal. What results is annihilationism’s attempt to reconcile passages of Scripture that teach both...