vol. 37, Issue #4

Online Journal Article: "A Traditionalist Response To John Stott's Arguments For Annihilationism" - Robert A. Peterson* Jets 37/4 (December 1994) 553-568

https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/37/37-4/JETS_37-4_553-568_Peterson.pdf

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Complete article may be found here:
https://www.etsjets.org/files/JETS-PDFs/37/37-4/JETS_37-4_553-568_Peterson.pdf

A TRADITIONALIST RESPONSE
TO JOHN STOTT'S ARGUMENTS FOR ANNIHILATIONISM
ROBERT A. PETERSON*
JETS 37/4 (December 1994) 553-568

Excerpt:
Let me say at the outset that I consider the concept of hell as endless torment
in body and mind an outrageous doctrine, a theological and moral enormity,
a bad doctrine of the tradition which needs to be changed How can
Christians possibly project a deity of such cruelty and vindictiveness whose ways
include inflicting everlasting torture upon his creatures, however sinful they
may have been. - C H Pinnock
Surely a God who would do such a thing is more nearly like
Satan t h an like God, at least by any ordinary moral standards, and by the
gospel itself Surely the God and F a t h e r of our Lord Jesus Christ is no
fiend, torturing people without end is not what our God does x
Strong words, indeed Not all annihilationists, however, engage in such
heated polemic And ultimately it is not the temperature of the writing but
the cogency of the arguments that matters My goal in this paper is to weigh
on the scales of Scripture the best arguments set forth by annihilationists
--from the first page of the article