INTRO: Our subject is how long does hell last? This is a rebuttal to David Raegan's article: Hell: Eternal Punishment Or Eternal Torment? He gave two views of hell; the traditionalist and the conditionalist viewpoint. The traditionalist viewpoint is the view of hell we hold to. The conditionalist viewpoint says you burn as long as you deserve and then you are annihilated. Raegan's difficulties with the traditionalist viewpoint were first: "How could a God of grace, mercy and love torment the vast majority of humanity eternally?" Second, he felt and I quote: "the concept of eternal torment seems to run contrary to biblical examples. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah with fire — suddenly and quickly. He destroyed Noah's evil world with water — suddenly and quickly. He ordered the Canaanites to be killed swiftly. In the Law of Moses there was no provision for incarceration or torture. Punishments for violation of the Law consisted either of restitution or death. Even sacrificial animals were spared suffering through precise prescriptions for their killing that guaranteed a death that would be as quick and painless as possible. His third problem was the matter of the second death and it is this subject that we are working on. I sought to define the three kinds of life I find in Scripture and began to deal with death. There is carnal or physical or bios life. Then there is what I called soulical life. And last, there is eternal life or everlasting life.
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