If I don't have a desire to read the Bible, is that a sign of poor faith?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

Well, hi, this is Bill Meyer along with Pastor Adriel Sanchez, and this is the radio program

where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day.

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First up today, let's go to Sean calling in from Arkansas.

Sean, what's your question for, Adriel?

Oh, yeah, so let me just try to word this where it makes a little more sense, but my wife and I are just kind of tossing back and forth things that we learned as children

and growing up in different religions that in the end of times where it says that Satan and

hell and all the destruction of the evil will happen. What about the people? Will people be

destroyed and basically non-existent? Or is there actually going to be a living torment?

Hey, thank you for that question, Sean. So that is a view that some have taken.

It's sometimes referred to as annihilationism.

That is, that those who are judged are just destroyed.

They cease to exist.

They do experience a kind of judgment and shame and so forth before the Lord,

but then they cease to exist.

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