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901 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 276.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the damned in Hell. This was predestination in the ultimate: “This will be made to appear in the strongest light to the redeemed, when they behold those in everlasting …

902 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 297.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the damned” is a “human invention.” Then he prays: “O heavenly Father, cleanse the hearts of all thy faithful children, from such polluting thoughts.” Such a word …

903 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 344.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the damned. Such was the philosophical theory which forced Tertullian to his view of future punishment. Men now laugh at the philosophical dogma. They accept …

904 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 511.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the damned is not the only alternative. Though “I once reluctantly held” it, he declares, “I hold no longer.” To him such a position is “based partly on a false view …

905 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 512.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… or damn.” She was also aware of the deepening conflict between Calvinism and Arminianism.90) Catherine Gilbertson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, p. 26.

906 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 524.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

He then declares: “All theories of endless misery assume necessarily the endlessness of sinning, and make God the minister of sin in that He is represented as denying the agonized prayer of the damned to be allowed to die.” 22) Ibid., p. 636.

907 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 530.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the damned might come to an end.” And the Articles of the Church of England, in their final form of Thirty-Nine, leave the matter open. This, he remarks, is in contrast …

908 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 531.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the damned must continue in misery forever.” 57) Ibid., pp. 86-98. 58) Ibid., p. 99.

909 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 587 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

1. PERPETUAL EXISTENCE OF DAMNED NOT BIBLICAL

911 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 588.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the damned, the indestructibility of an individual incapable of becoming holy and happy.... The notion of annihilation is evident in the passage which represents …

912 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 633 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

5. LED INEVITABLY TO “ETERNAL TORMENT” OF DAMNED

913 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 633.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

This “new doctrine” of natural immortality for the righteous led inevitably to a corollary position of vast proportions —that of the Eternal Torment of the damned, held increasingly as a threat over the sinner:

914 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 685.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the damned.” And Augustine held the same, maintaining that aionios signifies endless.60) Ibid., pp. 136-138. 61) Ibid., pp. 138, 139. 63) Ibid., pp 143, 144.

915 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 752.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… supposedly damned soul was born into the world as a mother’s child; and Paradise cannot be Paradise for her if her child is in such a Hell. The scheme is unworkable …

916 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 767.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the damned is “both unbiblical and unreasonable.”1) JOHAN WILHELM PERSONNE (1849-1926), Lutheran received his training in the University of Uppsala. He became …

917 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 769.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

Challenging the Augsburg Confession’s declaration “concerning the damned” as tin-Biblical linguistically, the Bishop continues his contention, dealing with the limitations of the Greek words aion and aionios:

918 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 770.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

… the damned in sec. 17 ut sine crucientur (“that they may be tormented without end”) are not, according to my belief, founded on the Bible. In the first place the Biblical …

919 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 770 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

5. ANGUISH OF DAMNED PRECLUDES JOY FOR SAVED

920 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 770.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)

Personne poses a formidable question concerning any joy for the saved, if there is “endless torment and agony” for the damned, and particularly for one’s “nearest of kin“: