Whatever Happened to Hell?

I bought this book in 1997 and have referred to it many times. I believe this is one of the best books on the subject ever written. I believe that Blanchard approaches and delves into his subject with an open mind attuned to Holy Scripture. This is a sobering treatise for those who seek the truth about Hell. I highly recommend!

Blanchard's book is a great antidote to the liars who claim that Christ and his apostles didn't teach the doctrine of the eternal punishment of the wicked. Denial will not change what Our Lord taught. How could Christ destroy both body and soul in hell if we dont have an immaterial soul?I dont know which book the last reviewer read but it must not have been blanchard's. No scripture references? Actually Blanchard has over 600 scripture references and quotations. This is the level that conditional immortalitists sink to. Lies and character assasination. Because Blanchard is such a well respected scholar our former reviewer didn't dare to refute him with any sort of an argument(on ANY point!!), he must resort to slandering the entire book. This is a true mark of desperation because he is trying so hard to believe what is so obviously unbiblical. The entire early church except for Arnobius believed in eternal punishment and yet the C.I. crowd tries to get you to believe that they didnt believe what they taught. The best book on the subject of hell and eternal punishment is Robert Morey's "Death and the Afterlife." Strange that after 15 years his book has not had any serious scholar challange its accuracy. The answer is because Morey is right and the conditional immortalitists are wrong Here is an excelent article by a theologian of a few years ago (James Orr) New Testament Teaching: In the New Testament, the strongest language is used by Jesus and the apostolic writers on the certainty and severity of the punishment of sin in the future state, and always in a manner which suggests that the doom is final. (1) "Eternal."-- The word "eternal" (aionios) is repeatedly applied to the punishment of sin, or to the fire which is its symbol. A principal example is , "eternal fire," "eternal punishment" (kolasis aionios . Here precisely the same word is applied to the punishment of the wicked as to the blessedness of the righteous. Other instances are ; Jude verse 7; compare . In , we have, "eternal destruction." The kindred word aidios, "everlasting," is in Jude verse 6 applied to the punishment of the fallen angels. The reply made that aionios in such passages denotes quality, not duration, cannot be sustained. Whatever else the term includes, it connotes duration. More pertinent is the criticism of other writers that aionios does not necessarily mean "eternal" (according to Cox it does not mean this at all), but is strictly "age-long," is therefore compatible with, if it does not directly suggest, a terminable period. Cox allows that the term is "saturated through and through with the element of time" (p. 100,), but he denies its equivalence with "everlasting." The sense, no doubt, is to be determined by the context, but it can hardly be questioned that "the aeons of the aeons" and similar phrases are the practical New Testament equivalents for eternity, and that aionios in its application to God and to life ("eternal life") includes the idea of unen