Brief Truths About Universalism and Annihilation

Jhn. 3:36 “He that believes on the Son has eternal life (Jhn. 17:2-3; 1 Jhn. 5:11), and He that believes not the Son will not see life; but the wrath of God abides on him.”

Seventy times the Greek word aionios is “everlasting” and “eternal.” Those who argue against the truth use seven verses out of the seventy to disprove the others. The fall of Adam and all of mankind did not touch immortal life, did not touch immortal soul.

Every individual must live or exist forever somewhere.

The infinite sacrifice of Christ reveals the truth of eternal punishment. How do you measure a few years of sin versus eternal woe?—all of Christ’s sufferings before the Cross and the suffering of the Cross itself. (Is. 50:6; 52:14; Psa. 22:11-17).

Eternal misery with divine mercy and goodness? Some of God’s attributes? What about divine justice, holiness, and truth? Do any of us even dare to think that in God’s eternal nature “we” could separate justice from love?

The Cross of Christ Jesus HAS harmonized them all—> Perfect love for the sinner and perfect hatred of sin. (Ps. 97:10-12), Hab. 1:13 = Jhn. 8:21-24.

Annihilation? Death never means extinction, it always means separation. Has Gen. 2:7 ever been revoked? Why were those who were dead in hell, at least a thousand years or more, brought up out of hell and standing before Christ’s white throne of judgment? (Rev. 20:11-15 = Jhn. 5:22).

Rev. 22:11 reveals a fixed principle, the fixedness of eternity. God and sin together? Never! Between Holiness and sin is eternal separation. It is changeless character without Christ who is eternal life (1 Jhn. 5:11).

In Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English, eternal never means temporal (universalism), and never means extinction (annihilation).

Aionios, as an adjective meaning eternal in the Septuagint, is in Ps. 24:7; 77:5; Gen. 21:33. In the Koine Greek New Testament, it’s found in 2 Cor. 4:18; Heb. 9:14; 1 Pet. 5:10; 1 Tim. 6:16; 2 Thes. 2:16; 2 Pet. 1:11; Heb. 9:15; 2 Cor. 5:1; Heb. 6:2; Mt. 18:8; 2 Thes. 1:9.

Please read the Bible with a concordance and see at least seventy times the word or words for everlasting, eternal, and eternity. The preponderance of all those Scriptures speaks loudly against universalism and annihilation.

See also Mt. 18:8; 19:16; 25:46; Mk. 3:29; Lk. 16:9; 18:30; Jhn. 3:15 16, 36; 5:24; Rom. 16:26; 2 Cor. 4:17; 5:1; 16:18; 2 Thes. 1:9; 2:16; 2 Tim. 2:10; Heb. 5:9; 9:12, 14-15; 1 Pet. 5:10; 2 Pet. 2:11; 1 Jhn. 5:20; Jude 7.