Erasing Hell author Preston Sprinkle is changing his tune

[WesF]

Hear Preston Sprinkle in his own words. biggestjesus.com/2017/09/erasing-hell-author-changing-his-tune.html

[JasonPratt]

Be sure to keep us posted on your upcoming debate/discussion with Chris Date!

[Holy-Fool-P-Zombie]

I don’t think he is “necessarily” changing his tune. Just getting more in line, with what many annihilationists believe. See Hope For All and Purgatorical Conditionalist. Let me quote from a user comment - in the first article:

One worry: I wonder why it’s specified that on Annihilationism (#3) one’s fate (heaven or annhil.) is set by what happens before one’s death? Don’t a lot of annihiliationists allow for post-mortem salvation, with those who continue to resist eventually being annihilated? That would be the position of Jon Kvanvig (THE PROBLEM OF HELL), but I think lots of further-chancers-after-death tend to think that annihilation is the fate of those who decisively and finally choose against God. (Not to venture any interpretation of C.S. Lewis on these matters, but some elements of his writings are likely to push some influenced by him in such directions.) On your taxonomy, these folks seem to be a mash-up of your positions #3 and #5, perhaps best viewed as a version of 5 with a 3-like annihilationist account of what happens to those who are not eventually reconciled.

Let me quote - from the second article:

How will things play out? I think the most likely scenario is a middle ground between annihilation and universal redemption as my friend Kurt described above. I think the opportunity for postmortem reconciliation is a likely, but not guaranteed scenario, but those who continually resist reconciliation with God through Christ will most likely cease to exist at some point (the “second death” that seems clear in scripture) as a result of their own choices.

Please note that this is my position also. But I don’t think there is a divine judgement - as Catholics and Protestants believe. But we will all be, in the pretense of God - like the Eastern Orthodox believe. And how we experience God’s love, becomes our experience of heaven or hell.

And everyone will probably have an opportunity - for post-mortem salvation. And I hope and pray, for the redemption of all.

If I take the visions of contemporary Old Catholic church mystic - Tiffany Snow - as true. Then those who resist, will become energy that makes up - the new earth. Hence, both the annihilationists and Anglican New Testament scholar NT Wright at youtube.com/watch?v=vggzqXzEvZ0, with a P-Zombie solution - are correct. And the vision implies that humans will know, what the end outcome of resistance is.