Five Basic Views of Hell

• Metaphorical - the belief that those who are wicked will never be redeemed and restored to a place of blessing in eternity, but the scriptural accounts of their suffering and divine judgment are to be taken in a less than literal understanding.
• Purgatorial (Roman Catholic) - the belief that hell is an ante-chamber which is a place of divine cleansing from which some will eventually emerge as redeemed and join those already in heaven.
• Conditional - this belief says that hell is only a temporary situation for people and all will eventually be restored to blessing.
• Annihlation (Jehovah's Witness)- this belief says that the soul is completely destroyed and that is the punishment aspect of hell.
• Orthodox - the belief in a literal hell where the punishment for the wicked is everlasting without the possibility of ever being redeemed.


Ten texts that teach eternal conscious punishment of the wicked: Isa 66:22-24; Dan 12:1-12; Matt 18:6-9; 25:31-46; Mark 9:42-48; 2 Thess 1:5-10; Jude 7, 13, Rev 14:9-11; and 20:10, 14-15.