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Similationism Vs Annihilationism

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The Classical View of the hell involves the eternal suffering, meaning people will suffer forever in the afterlife if they rejected Christ. The Classical View is using eternal God and his eternal punishment for people who rejected him as main argument. On the other hand, the Annihilationist View emphasizes the suffering of people in afterlife and later will perish. The Annihilationist View bases their argument from how God is loving and would not bring even the rejecters to eternal suffering.
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