I wanted to come in here and talk about the Bible, right?

Because the annihilationists, the ones that are the most popular today,

they're trying to stake out the biblical high ground.

They're the ones that are reading the Bible the most carefully.

Everybody else is sort of a benighted view of scripture.

That's actually not the case.

There's another side to this.

The majority report in the Christian church

is eternal conscious torment.

But at the end of the day,

our consciences are captive to the truth.

It's not even to the fact

that the church has always held to this.

Now, I think that's a weighty concern

because that means that Christians over the ages

have been reading the Bible in a certain way.

To me, that's a weighty concern, okay?

But it's, at the end of the day,

the ultimate authority is scripture itself.

And that's what we have to go with.

In case you haven't noticed gentlemen, there's been a lot more fuss about the subject of

hell lately than usual. And when I say gentlemen, of course, I'm speaking about my

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