“The simplest way to put it is that aionios cannot be used properly of anyone but God; it is the word uniquely, as Plato saw it, of God. Eternal punishment is then literally that kind of remedial punishment which it befits God to give, and...
Matt 25:46
“The Greek word for punishment here [Matt 25:46] is kolasis, which was not originally an ethical word at all. It originally meant the pruning of trees to make them grow better. I think it is true to say that in all Greek secular literature...
2 Chron 28:2-4; Mark 9:44-48
Gehenna…means the Valley of Hinnom, a valley to the southwest of Jerusalem. It was notorious as the place where Ahaz had introduced the fire worship of the heathen god Molech, to whom little children were burned (2 Chron 28:2-4). Josiah...
“I believe implicitly in the ultimate and complete triumph of God. . . . If one man remains outside the love of God at the end of time, it means that that one man has defeated the love of God—and that is impossible. . . . Further, there is...
