10. Eternal punishment is impossible because
God will not because He cannot violate His own command, in Christ, to love one’s enemies, pray for them, and do good for them (Mt. 5:43, 44).
9. Eternal punishment is impossible because God
shall destroy the works of the Devil (I Jn. 3:8). God will not just defeat and confine evil, in a dark hole in the universe called “hell,” but will completely destroy evil so it will not be an eternal dark blight on God’s universe of love and light.
8. Eternal punishment is impossible because Christ is
the Savior of the whole world—not just a small part of it (Jn.4:42).
7. Eternal punishment is impossible because Christ,
God in human form, will draw all created beings to Himself (Jn. 12:32).
6. Eternal punishment is impossible because God
will not because He cannot violate the command He gave, in Christ, to forgive seventy times seven which means to forgive and to keep on forgiving (Mt. 18:21, 22).
5. Eternal punishment is impossible because God’s
love is unconditional and everlasting, not conditional and time limited (Jer. 31:3).
4. Eternal punishment is impossible because it
would make might right and prove God’s Word false since the Bible declares, “Not by might nor by power but by my Spirit says the Lord” (Zech. 4:6). God will draw all people to Himself by His Spirit (“irresistible grace”), not torture people forever.
3. Eternal punishment is impossible because God
will not because He cannot violate His own law of proportionality: life for life, an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, burning for burning… (Ex. 21:23-25). Eternal damnation in literal hell fire would be excessive to the nth degree!
2. Eternal punishment is impossible because hell
will cease to exist! The church will eventually stop playing defense, get on the offense, ram down the gates of hell, and completely destroy hell itself (Mt. 16:18)!
1. Eternal punishment is impossible because God
shall accomplish His grand goal of becoming “All in All” [KJV] meaning God will become Everything to Every One [RSV] (I Cor. 15:28)!