wrote the second position in “Four Views on Hell” about terminal judgement. In the chapter John talks about how he believes in terminal judgement, which he defines as “the view that hell is the situation in which those who do not avail themselves of the atonement made by Jesus in his suffering and death must make their own atonement by suffering and then death, separated from the sustaining life of God and thus disappearing from the Cosmos” (Stackhouse Jr. 61). Stackhouse claims that terminal punishment is the view of hell most warranted by scripture. In the chapter it states that Christians view hell as eternal, but what does the bible mean by eternal. “In the old testament there are ordinances, rituals, and institutions described as eternal, but they clearly do not last forever” (Stackhouse Jr.
wrote the second position in “Four Views on Hell” about terminal judgement. In the chapter John talks about how he believes in terminal judgement, which he defines as “the view that hell is the situation in which those who do not avail themselves of the atonement made by Jesus in his suffering and death must make their own atonement by suffering and then death, separated from the sustaining life of God and thus disappearing from the Cosmos” (Stackhouse Jr. 61). Stackhouse claims that terminal punishment is the view of hell most warranted by scripture. In the chapter it states that Christians view hell as eternal, but what does the bible mean by eternal. “In the old testament there are ordinances, rituals, and institutions described as eternal, but they clearly do not last forever” (Stackhouse Jr.