The Hell Debate is Heating Up: 10 Qs with Mike Winger (Ep 67)

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Mike Winger

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 3 January 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Question Time Stamps for Quick Reference:0:00 - Intro1. 0:18 {Hell: Traditional vs. Conditional?} What is Mike’s perspective on the topic of Hell?2. 26:14 {Marriage, Heaven & Vows} Regarding 1 Timothy 5:11-12, if there is no marriage in Heaven, and when a spouse dies we’re free to remarry, how then does a young widow break her first vow?3. 33:34 {Purpose of the Tree of Life} If we were created as eternal beings, then what purpose did the Tree of Life hold in the Garden of Eden?4. 36:00 {Matthew 6 – But Poverty?} How do we reconcile Matthew 6:25-33 with the reality of poverty? I'm comfortable saying "even He doesn't, God is still good" but this passage sounds almost Word-of-Faith.5. 44:13 {Purgatory in the Book of Matthew?} I've been curious about the word “until” or “till” in Matthew 18:34. Does this imply purgatory?6. 50:57 {Jesus Given a Higher Name?} New believer here, and my question is, since Jesus is YHWH, why is He given the name above every other name in Philippians 2? What does that mean?7. 56:46 {Can All Believers Prophesy?} Does 1 Corinthians 14:31 mean all believers can prophesy? If all can teach in some way without being teachers (i.e., teaching their children), can all prophesy without being prophets?8. 59:37 {Hyperbole in Scripture} The Sermon on the Mount has some hyperbole (cut off your hand). How do you know what is hyperbole and what isn't, specifically regarding anger?9. 1:05:08 {Does God Use our Sin?} Do you believe that God uses the consequences/results of a sin for His own purposes, like a one night stand resulting in a child? A reference could be Joseph and his brothers.10. 1:08:07 {How/Why was Jesus Amazed?} Matthew 8:5-13 says that Jesus was amazed at the centurion's faith. In other places in the New Testament, Jesus knew the thoughts of the Pharisees. If Jesus could read thoughts, how could He be amazed? Kirk Cameron's recent video has been like a match to dry grass, igniting a debate about Hell that has been building for some time now. Since a number of people are putting my name in the mix (and misunderstanding my own position), I want to bring clarity and also offer some advice for us all to lower the temperature on Hell. Sorry, the puns just come. https://BibleThinker.org

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0:00.0	a lot of stuff today, but my view on hell. And on the debate, in particular the debate that is
0:06.0	currently broiling on hell, sorry, the puns just automatically come out. I don't even like
0:13.2	them. They just come out. Here's what happened. So here I'll go to question number one. What is
0:18.7	my perspective on the topic of hell? Now,
0:21.3	normally I would not ask a question like that and then answer it. Let me ask myself what my
0:25.6	perspective is on something. The rest of the questions all come from you guys today, but I have
0:29.4	the first one I brought. But the reason I'm doing it is because there's been some confusion
0:33.8	about my view on this. And let me get into it. Kirk Cameron, who is a brother in the
0:40.9	Lord who's done a lot for the kingdom in good ways. He came out with the video with with him and
0:46.7	his son on his podcast. Well, it was critical of the traditional doctrine of hell. And it was critical
0:52.7	of it on a number of grounds.
0:54.3	And you could say they were just asking questions.
0:57.4	That's not really actually what happened.
1:01.2	So just asking questions, I don't think you can say that fairly if you are also bringing
1:07.8	implications.
1:08.5	If your questions involve implications, you're not just asking questions.
1:12.0	You are making implications with the tool of questions. Now, that may be fair and that may be right
1:17.1	or it might be wrong, but we shouldn't pretend that the implications aren't there. So there was a video
1:22.4	that was done, and I like to respond to it because not so much to the video with Kirk and his son or his
1:27.4	follow-up video where he elaborated in more detail, but the debate going on because here's what happened. Tons of people reacted to Kirk Cameron. Lots of videos were made. Lots of content was created. I was being asked about this. Privately, people were asking about it. And the reason why they were asking me is because along with videos about Kirk Cameron, people were putting footage of me, Mike Winger, saying, I'm open to a non-traditional
1:51.0	view of the topic of hell, in particular the conditional immorality view or what some people call
1:56.0	annihilationism. So this is the idea, and here's what Kirk did. He basically said, hey, maybe we're wrong about hell.
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