632: Chris Date - Conditional Immortality, Terminal Punishment and Annihilation

Theology in the Raw

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 30 January 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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The Rethinking Hell Conference is taking place March 9–10, at The Heights Baptist Church in Richardson, Texas. Preston will be there with Chris doing a podcast live! You can find out more at rethinkinghellconference.com. Today on the Podcast Preston is talking with Chris Date from the Rethinking Hell Podcast. Chris is diving into the topic of Annihilation or Conditional Immortality. Why call it Conditional Immortality rather than Annihilation? What biblical support is there for Conditionalism? When did Chris stop looking at the Bible and determine to base his theology of Hell on emotions? (tongue in cheek) Chris is the a host and contributor of the Rethinking Hell Podcast and Blog. Chris seeks to take the Bible seriously and promote rigorous study of the scriptures. You can find the Chris's podcast at rethinkinghell.com. You can find Chris's debate with Al Mohler here. The song at the end is Breakfast by Newsboys. Support Preston Support Preston by going to patreon.com Connect with Preston Follow him on Twitter @PrestonSprinkle Check out his website prestonsprinkle.com If you enjoy the podcast, be sure to leave a review.

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0:00.0	Whatever range of meetings death might have, in what sense did Jesus die as our substitute?
0:09.7	When we say Jesus died for our sins, we don't typically mean that he was separated from
0:13.9	God for our sins. No we mean he literally died. Greetings and welcome back to another episode of Theology in the Raw and I am here
0:37.6	with my special guest and a person who's become a friend over the years and we're
0:42.2	going to get into some specifics
0:43.7	about how we became friends but just a quick introduction my my guest is
0:49.1	Christopher Date, Chris Date and some of you may know the name Chris Date, he is a blogger, a
0:56.2	podcaster, he's the co-editor of two books, Rethinking Hell and a
1:00.5	consuming passion and most of you if you do know the name Chris State you probably know him either through the
1:07.2	rethinking hell website or I would say project it's not just a website it's like a whole
1:11.8	I would even say movement.
1:13.9	And when I turn it over to you, Chris, I'll let you expand on that, but Chris has been an
1:19.1	evangelical thinker on the issue of hell, specifically rethinking hell in terms of the debate between
1:27.2	the nature of hell. Is it eternal conscious torment? Is it so-called annihilation or is it universalism where people will be
1:35.7	rescued out of hell and I've talked about this so many times on the podcast already so
1:39.4	I'll I'll stop there without getting all the explanations and caveats but But Chris, thank you so much for being on the show.
1:44.3	The pleasure and honor is all mine.
1:45.8	So we first met.
1:48.7	You reached out to me after I co-wrote Erasing Hell.
1:52.4	This is summer of 2011.
1:55.1	And I think it was maybe three months or so
1:58.6	after we published that book.
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