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    Challenges→The term "unquenchable fire," as used in the NT, supports the claim that the punishment of the wicked lasts forever

    Annihilationism is mutually exclusive with God making the wicked immortal so they can suffer forever

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    • 1.Annihilationism holds the wicked cease to exist; eternal conscious torment requires continued existence, making them logically incompatible.
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    • 2.A morally perfect God would not create immortal beings solely to torture them, favoring annihilation as more consistent with divine justice.
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    • 3.Scripture describing divine judgment emphasizes destruction and death rather than endless conscious suffering in many key passages.
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