Immortality

Adam's Immortality

The question of Adam’s nature in Genesis unlocks much larger implications for how we understand life, death, judgment, and salvation. False doctrines such as Eternal Conscious Torment (ECT) and Annihilationism depend on the assumption that humanity either possessed inherent immortality...

Immortality and Eternal Life

Immortality and Eternal Life

The confusion between immortality and eternality has led to some of the most tragic theological errors in the history of the church. The stakes are not academic—they are eternal (or more accurately, eonian). Many have been trapped into believing that...

Eternal

New Testament "Eternal" False Translation

The entire doctrine of Eternal Conscious Torment (ECT) and its cousin Annihilationism rests on one word—aiōnios (αἰώνιος). This is the word translated in most English Bibles as “eternal” or “everlasting.” If that translation falls, the entire framework of unending hell...

Old Testament Eternal

Old Testament "Eternal" False Translation

When the New Testament writers used the Greek term aiōnios (translated “eternal”), they were not inventing a new concept. They were following the usage of the Septuagint (the Greek translation of the Old Testament), which consistently renders the Hebrew word...