Is annihilationism heretical? Let's talk about it
Most people growing up in church have wondered at some point if annihilationism is heretical, especially after sitting through a few heavy-duty sermons on fire and brimstone. It's one of those topics that can make a Sunday school class get real quiet—or real loud—depending on who's in the room. For the longest time, the "standard" view of hell has been Eternal Conscious Torment (ECT). You know the drill: the idea that people who reject God spend forever in a state of suffering. But lately, more and more folks are looking at their Bibles and asking if that's actually what the text says, or if we've just been repeating what we've heard for centuries. ...