A cornucopia of questions from all over the place, this one from Spain, Dr Craig Craig in your answer to a recent question

on annihilationism you drew a distinction between eternal life the saved and

eternal existence the the damned.

Leaving aside possible philosophical niceties,

my simple question is this,

what is the difference between life and existence?

Now let me interrupt at that point, Kevin, and give a straightforward answer.

The difference between life and existence is that someone who is alive has a relationship

with God and someone who merely exists is

spiritually dead that is to say they do not have a relationship with God.

Okay.

Does the former imply self-aware consciousness,

whereas the latter is merely some kind of mindless vegetative state?

No, obviously not.

I'm not saying that spiritual death is a matter of being unconscious.

And if the latter does, in fact, involve personal sentience in whatever form,

then does that mean some kind of endless suffering on the part of the unsaved?

A question you seem to be frank to have sidestepped in your response to the question.

Okay, I don't think that I sidestepped it, but most certainly it does involve endless suffering on the part of the unsaved.

The damned will experience torment in hell forever, and this will be the torment of eternal separation from God.

Similar question from Australia from Jason.

What does it mean to be spiritually dead yet have eternal existence?

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