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Questions

Dualism

1. If sin against an infinite God will incur an infinite punishment would that not be a form of dualism since it would mean that sin, death and evil would parallel God forever?

2. Is it not an illogical assertion that justice can be paid through a sentence that never ends which implies it is never fulfilled?

3. Does not an eternal hell make “the most corrupt, foul and loathsome in man to be as enduring as God Himself? Does it not confer the dignity of an immortal life on what is morally abominable? Does it not teach perpetual anarchy and chaos? Does it not enthrone pandemonium as an eternal fact side by side with Paradise? Is this the promise of making ‘all things new’ and of the reality of God becoming all in all?” (Allin)

4. What do you think of the comparison of an eternal hell as like unto “an open festering wound of perpetual death and disease in the universe never intended to be healed?” (from J. Bonda, The One Purpose of God)

5. What about the verses that speak of everything returning to God, the Source of all things? “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.” What about all the words that convey the concept of returning back to God and His ways in the Scriptures such as: REstoration, REdemption, REconciliation, REsurrection, REvive, and REpent?

6. Since God is the One who holds literally everything and everyone together, what is referred to as sustaining grace (Col. 1:17) then He must be sustaining by His grace every person in an eternal hell in order for them to continue to exist … in order for them to be punished forever. This sounds even worse than dualism as it attributes God with actually sustaining sin and death forever!