Actor, author and host of TBN’s The Kirk Cameron Show, Kirk Cameron, recently came under fire when he revealed that he no longer believes in ‘eternal conscious torment’ for the wicked. During an interview Cameron revealed that he believes that hell is “cruel and unusual punishment.” He said he supports annihilationism because “It fits the character of God.” This view holds that “unbelievers are destroyed and that the human soul is immortal only if a person receives eternal life and goes to heaven.”
Here’s The Dissenter response:
There’s a growing fad in Evangelical circles—one as old as rebellion itself—where otherwise church-going folks suddenly decide that Hell isn’t real anymore. Not literal. Not eternal. Not conscious torment. Just a metaphor, a symbol, a poetic flourish Jesus used when He… didn’t mean what He said.
And you can always spot the trend by the opening move: they don’t start with Scripture—they start with sentiment. Then they go hunting through the Bible for anything that sounds soft enough to justify their discomfort. Preston Sprinkle, who is better known for his build-a-bridge campaign between homosexuals and Evangelicalism, and the rest of the annihilationist crowd do this with whole lists of verses, stacking them like cardboard boxes and pretending that sheer volume is the same thing as truth.
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CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18