The Consuming Fire: Conditional Immortality Responds to Biblical Universalism

Conditional Immortality and the Final Fate of the Unsaved. This book makes the case that conditional immortality gives a better answer than universalism to the final fate of the unsaved. It treats universalist arguments seriously while arguing that destruction language and final judgment are better read through a CI framework.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1—Common Ground and the Road Ahead
CHAPTER 2—What Is Conditional Immortality
CHAPTER 3—The Character of God
CHAPTER 4—Body and Soul
CHAPTER 5—The Nature of Hell
CHAPTER 6—The Meaning of Aionios
CHAPTER 7—The Nature and Scope of the Atonement
CHAPTER 8—Destruction Language
CHAPTER 9—Death, Destruction, Judgment in the OT
CHAPTER 10—The Prophets on Judgment and Restoration
CHAPTER 11—Sodom and Gomorrah
CHAPTER 12—Jesus on Gehenna, Destruction, and the Narrow Way
CHAPTER 13—The Parables of Judgment
CHAPTER 14—The Sheep and the Goats
CHAPTER 15—Johns Gospel: Perishing, Eternal Life, and the Will of the Father
CHAPTER 16—Romans 5: Adam and Christ
CHAPTER 17—Romans 9–11: The Mystery of Mercy on All
CHAPTER 18—1 Corinthians 15
CHAPTER 19—Cosmic Reconciliation
CHAPTER 20—God the Savior of All People
CHAPTER 21—Hebrews: Discipline, Warning, and the Consuming Fire
CHAPTER 22—The Petrine Epistles
CHAPTER 23—The Lake of Fire, the Second Death, and the Gates That Never Shut
CHAPTER 24—Conditional Immortality in the Early Church
CHAPTER 25—Universalism in the Early Church
CHAPTER 26—The Problem of Evil and Final Destiny
CHAPTER 27—Free Will, Love, and the Nature of Choice
CHAPTER 28—Divine Justice, Proportionality, and Gods Purposes
CHAPTER 29—The Postmortem Opportunity and Evangelism
CHAPTER 30—Substance Dualism vs Physicalism
CHAPTER 31—Why Substance Dualism Matters for Conditional Immortality
CHAPTER 32—The Consuming Fire: An Invitation
Appendices
APPENDIX A—Scripture Index
APPENDIX B—Annotated Bibliography
APPENDIX C—Glossary