What in the Hell is Hell? - 3 on 3 Debate #12

On June 2nd, 2007 at Oasis Church in Moreno Valley, a 3 on 3 panel debate took place on the issue of hell. The question was as follows: Does the Bible Teach that Hell is a place of eternal conscious torment? Former evangelical Christian Steve Scianni, Patrick Navas and myself (Dan Mages) offered arguments that display that the Biblical authors did not believe or teach that hell was as a place of eternal, conscious torment, but a place of complete and total destruction of both body and soul. Gene Cook, Mike Sarkissian and Joel Hughes attempted to uphold that the Bible teaches hell as the place of eternal, conscious suffering. Listen in and decide for yourself which position interprets the data more carefully and coherently.

Note that this debate was not about what any individual specifically believes, but a discussion about what the Bible as a whole teaches on the subject. I would like to advise the listener that our debate team was not given an audio copy of the debate so I had to purchase a one from Gene Cook's website. As I was listening through, I noticed that the audio had been edited and portions of the actual debate were left out. I therefore had to take the recording I did from the computer in front of me during the debate and splice them together. This accounts for the two differing qualities of audio during a few segments.

For a great list of articles and links regarding this topic, visit the articles page on the religion page of www.hungertruth.com I specifically want to recommend the articles written by my friend Steve Scianni as I believe he has written some of the best material available on the subject.

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