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    It is not the case that Every word and figure of speech the OT used that describes the ultimate end of the wicked implies extinction

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    • 1.Several Hebrew terms like 'sheol' and 'olam' carry semantic ranges that include ongoing conscious existence, not merely cessation.
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    • 2.Selective lexical enumeration without accounting for contested translations commits the fallacy of question-begging in biblical semantics.
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    • 3.Scholars like Philip Johnston and N.T. Wright demonstrate that OT afterlife vocabulary resists reduction to a single extinction paradigm.
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    • 1.The logical move from 'these words imply extinction' to 'every such word implies extinction' requires exhaustive demonstration, not mere enumeration.
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    • 2.Imagery like 'undying worm' in Isaiah 66:24, cited by Jesus in Mark 9, has been consistently interpreted by patristic and rabbinic traditions as indicating ongoing torment rather than annihilation.
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    • 1.There are fifty Hebrew words and seventy-five figures of speech that describe the ultimate end of the wicked in the OT
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    • 2.Each of those imply extinction
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    • 3.If the above is true, then every Hebrew word and figure of speech the OT used that describes the ultimate end of the wicked implies extinction
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