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Eternal Conscious Torment is the true Protestant Hell
Assumptions
- Protestant/Evangelical Christianity's distinctive, characteristic beliefs
Reasoning
- If the above is true, Eternal Conscious Torment is the true Protestant Hell
Reasoning
- If the above is true, Eternal Conscious Torment is the true Protestant Hell
∴ Eternal Conscious Torment is the true Protestant Hell
* [[xThe Old Testament is against Eternal Conscious Torment]] * [[Intertestamental Jews supported Eternal Conscious Torment]] * [[The New Testament supports Eternal Conscious Torment]]
Reasoning
Definitions
Eternal Conscious Torment: the belief that Hell involves humans suffering in absolute torment, fully conscious and aware of that torment, from the moment they enter and for all of eternity.
Analogies
Notable Supporters
Counter-Statement
Talk
Interestingly, a lot of arguments against Hell are actually against the eternality of Hell–an argument that is (mostly) unique to ECT: thus, instead of putting them as a rebuttal to Hell itself, it is best that they are moved here (users, even submitters, will find things like this and move them themselves. On the other thread, “Hell exists,” Hell would simply be defined as something like “a place after death for at least some people to be damned to by some Being or Force.” -Loyal
It would be helpful to refine which exact positions Edwards supports by putting it under the reasoning, such as
===== Reasoning ===== * [[foo]] * If the above is true, [[]] ∴ [[]] ==== Notable Supporters ==== [[wp>Jonathan Edwards (theologian)]] in [[http://www.jonathan-edwards.org/Eternity.html|Eternity of Hell Torments]] ===== Reasoning =====
-Loyal
