Seventh Day Adventists
| Article Index |
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| Seventh Day Adventists |
| Date Setting |
| Satan as a Scapegoat |
| What Does The New Testament Say? |
| An Immortal Soul |
| Soul Sleep at Death |
| No Hell Only Annihlation |
| Conclusions |
NO HELL ONLY ANNIHILATION
SDA Believe> pp.369-373 outlines their belief that there is no such place as literal hell but that the wicked will suffer by means of total destruction. There are other Christians who also hold to this belief but we believe that the Bible says something very different.
# 1. Mark 9:43. How is it better to be crippled in this life than to go off into annihilation? This only makes sense if we are talking about eternal punishment.
# 2. Matthew 26:24. It would be better if this man had not been born. However is his punishment was simply to be annihilated it would have been no different.
# 3. Matthew 25:46 uses the same word 'eternal' both for the punishment of the wicked and the life of the righteoous. It must have the same meaning in both cases, i.e. lasting forever.
# 4. Matthew 12:32. If there is not punishment for wilful sin in the age to come, this Scripture would not need to emphasise that there would be no forgiveness then.
There are one or two other minor points of difference in these last sections but they need not worry us at this time.