{"product_id":"a-catholic-reading-guide-to-conditional-immortality-the-third-alternative-to-hell-and-universalism-9781498297295","title":"A Catholic Reading Guide to Conditional Immortality: The Third Alternative to Hell and Universalism","description":"Like many other people, the long tradition about hell has been a source of serious confusion and distress for me. Over the past six years or so I was relieved to discover two other alternatives that are also part of the Christian tradition, though less prominent--universalism and the subject of the present book, conditional immortality. Universalism--that everyone would eventually be saved--did not, in the final analysis, seem to really come to grips with the overwhelming scriptural testimony that some kind of radical fateful decision is possible to people. Conditional immortality--that people who absolutely refuse God's plan for them will be taken out of existence--seems to me the best scriptural understanding of what the Lord meant by \"losing one's soul\"--not everlasting punishment but the withdrawal of existence. This book is an attempt to explain this theological theory. It is not presented as a definite dogma or teaching of the church, but as one of the possible results of a persistent and irrevocable decision against God.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Resource Publications (CA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781498297295\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d","brand":"Robert Wild","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52122236354741,"sku":"9781498297295","price":41.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_be08ee48-878f-498c-97a9-1faa4128abb3.jpg?v=1766512180","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-catholic-reading-guide-to-conditional-immortality-the-third-alternative-to-hell-and-universalism-9781498297295","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}