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  • 1everlasting — adj Everlasting, endless, interminable, unceasing are comparable when they mean continuing on and on without end. Unlike infinite, eternal, and similar words (see INFINITE), these terms do not presuppose the absence of a beginning and therefore… …

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  • 2punishment, everlasting — The ultimate destiny of the irredeemably wicked. The ancient Hebrews regarded sheol, the abode of the dead, as a place of weariness and forgetfulness and not of punishment or retribution for earthly sin. The concept began to emerge later of a… …

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  • 3punishment — pun·ish·ment n 1: the act of punishing 2: a penalty (as a fine or imprisonment) inflicted on an offender through the judicial and esp. criminal process see also cruel and unusual punishment Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster …

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  • 4punishment, eternal —    This term (from the Latin punire, meaning to inflict a penalty or to cause pain ) refers to the everlasting condemnation of unrepentant sinners to hell. Eternal punishment consists primarily of the separation from Godfor all eternity. (See CCC …

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  • 5Problem of Hell — The problem of hell is an argument against the existence of God. It is a variant of the problem of evil, applying specifically to religions which hold both that:# An omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing), and omnibenevolent (all… …

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  • 6Christian mortalism — incorporates the belief that the human soul is not naturally immortal,[1][2][3][4][5] and the belief that the soul is uncomprehending during the time between bodily death and Judgment Day resurrection …

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  • 7Eschatology — • A survey of the subject in various pre Christian religions and cultures, an examination of the development of eschatology in the Old Testament, brief overview of Christian teaching Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Eschatology      …

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  • 8Aeon — The word aeon , also spelled eon or æon , means age , forever or for eternity . It is a Latin transliteration from the koine Greek word polytonic|ὁ αἰών ( aion ), from the archaic polytonic|αἰϝών ( aiwon ). In Homer it typically refers to life or …

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  • 9Trinitarian Universalism — The highest heaven from Gustave Doré s illustrations to the Divine Comedy …

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  • 10Last Judgment — Judgment Day redirects here. For other uses, see Last Judgment (disambiguation) and Judgment Day (disambiguation). The Last Judgment by Lochner in the 15th century. The Last Judgment, Final Judgment, Day of Judgment, Judgment Day, or The Day of… …

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