091. QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 42.

QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 42.

1. Should the scriptures describing future punishment be construed literally or figuratively?

2. If figuratively, are the figures stronger than the reality?

3. What scriptures prove that future punishment implies the infliction of pain by an external agency?

4. What scriptures prove that it implies banishment to a place of outer darkness?

5. What scriptures prove that it implies a state of deep distress and anguish?

6. In what scripture is it called the second death?

7. What is implied in banishment from God and all that is good?

8. What scriptures prove that it implies the outpouring of the wrath of God?

9. What is the theory of Materialism? Of Destructionism? Of Universalism? Of Restorationism?

10. What is the correct doctrine on the subject?

11. What scriptures are adduced to prove it?

12. What objections are offered against the annihilation theory?

13. How is it shown that Universalism is contrary to the scheme of salvation through the mediation of Christ?

14. How is it proved that it is inconsistent with the conditionality of salvation?

15. How is it proved that it is contrary, to salvation through the love and mercy of God?

16. How is it proved that it is inconsistent with the idea of salvation from past sins, or salvation in any sense?