Ep 1284 | What the Hell? The Truth About Kirk Cameron’s Views on Eternal Punishment
Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey
Blaze Podcast Network
4.6 • 19.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Is Kirk Cameron right about hell? Is the punishment of hell temporary or is it eternal conscious torment? |
| 0:08.9 | We will be looking at both sides of this debate today and also answering the question, is this heresy? |
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| 0:28.6 | Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. Hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far. |
| 0:39.5 | All right, today we are going to talk about hell. |
| 0:42.8 | We are going to talk about a specific debate that was reeling at the end of last year that I didn't get to wait into that I want to try to add as much clarity as I can for my specific audience on today. So let me back up |
| 0:55.6 | a little bit, give us some context on December 3rd, actor Kirk Cameron released a podcast |
| 1:00.8 | episode with his son in which they discuss God's justice and God's mercy in relation to |
| 1:07.4 | hell and punishment of those who do not repent and put their faith in Christ. |
| 1:13.2 | And instead of affirming what is seen as the traditional view of hell among most |
| 1:18.0 | Protestant eternal conscious punishment, where non-Christians are being tortured and |
| 1:24.0 | fire for all of eternity and hell with Satan, he affirmed a view called |
| 1:27.8 | conditionalism or annihilationism. And this perspective holds that those who reject the gospel go to |
| 1:34.9 | hell, but are not there eternally. They are eventually destroyed. They are punished for a finite |
| 1:40.1 | period of time, and then they no longer exist. And I encourage you to go watch Kurt Cameron's full |
| 1:46.2 | episode, love him, have had him on the show several times. He is so great. And you will be interested |
| 1:52.9 | to hear his argument from his perspective. Here's a clip from it, Sot 1. I used to hold the position |
| 1:58.4 | of conscious eternal torment because that's just what I was taught by people that I love and trust. |
| 2:03.1 | I've learned that there are other positions and a very robust argument can be made for conditionalism or annihilationism as Edward Fudge posits here. |
| 2:13.9 | And it fits the character of God in my understanding more than the conscious, |
| 2:22.2 | the conscious eternal torment position, because it brings in the mercy of God together with the |
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