Kirk Cameron, Hell, & Annhilation

Recently, Kirk Cameron has come under fire for questioning traditional, majority view of hell as a place of eternal conscious torment.    

This controversy is easily resolved. 

There is a resurrection of the Just & Unjust. (Acts 24).

In Adam all die. In Christ all are made alive (Romans 5, I Corinthians 15). 

The resurrection of Christ underwrites the General Resurrection, not just the resurrection of the Just. If Christ is not raised, the dead are not raised. (I Corinthians 15); ergo the resurrection of the Unjust depends on the resurrection of Christ as much as the resurrection of the Just. Apart from union with Christ, nobody can be raised from the dead. 

Ephemeral bodies are dishonorable, corruptible/perishable, natural, earthly/terrestrial. Resurrection ontology is glorious, incorruptible, imperishable, spiritual, and heavenly, blessedly corporeal, not under the curse of sin and death, & neither incorporeal nor ghostly. (I Cor. 15). This is true of both the Just & Unjust. 

Where does the Bible teach that anyone united to Christ is eternally damned? Nowhere! In Adam, all die. In Christ all are made alive.

Do people who die Unjust go to Hades? Yes. Are they eternally damned? No. If they are, then why don’t the signs & seals say so? Why doesn’t the Bible teach that some united to Christ are made alive & others die? Per Jeremiah & Ezekiel. The Valley of Hinnom & the Valley of Dry Bones are renovated & made alive. God destroys Death & Hades by redeeming us all. 

Particularism is the problem — not the solution. God will move us all to exercise saving repentance & faith either before or after we die. 

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