The rendering of olam as everlasting here creates a contradiction of massive proportions and makes of the Levitical priesthood something it is not.
Category: The Argument
An Unstoppable Force
“Listen to Me” says God to the descendants of Jacob, “I have made you – you haven’t made me, and I have been carrying you since you’ve been born.” What irony!
Can This Be the Fruit of God’s Adventure?
If the orthodox view of hell is correct, then the devil will have won.
Cast From His Presence
To speak of separation from God is to assume that someone could exist without Him. These passages seem conclusive: in Christ all things exist and are held together – upheld by the word of His power. Not a creature exists outside of or separated from Him.
The Mishandling of the Ages
The absurdity of an all-powerful God being unable to save those that He loves and for whom He paid an enormous price vanishes in the light of a complete victory that has been His purpose since before the ages began.
Everlasting Versus Age-Lasting
An amazing thing happens when aion is rendered “age” throughout the New Testament.
God Will Be All in All
This is to be achieved by a magnificent event which is on its way, beyond which we know nothing. A divine event, it seems to be set in the farthest reaches of the future.
The Next Generation
It seems to me that, if eternal conscious torment was a tenet of the early church, there should be something that would suggest as much in the historical record of the first few hundred years.
The Refiner’s Fire
The smoke of the country went up as the smoke of a kibshan (a smelting pot). The destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is being seen through the lense of the refining process.
Biblical Universalism 