Summary: Pastor Douglas Wilson, critic of conditional immortality, joins Rethinking Hell contributor Chris Date to discuss his objections to belief in the final annihilation of the unsaved. Promoted Resources Doug Wilson’s blog, “Blog and Mablog”: http://www.dougwils.com/ The church at which Doug pastors: http://www.christkirk.com/ Podcast Outline 00:00 Intro Music 00:53 Chris Date Introduces the episode 01:49 Transition Music 02:05 Intro of Pastor Douglas Wilson of Christ Church in Moscow, Idaho 03:45 Areas of passion: “All of Christ, for all of life, for all the world” (Integrated Faith) 05:20 On debates and friendship with Christopher Hitchens 07:15 On dealing with hostility from Bloomington students 08:50 (Wilson) Christians and the sin of “shrillness” 09:45 Hell a hot topic 10:20 Can the nature of the discussion improve? 13:43 Can you summarize your view on hell? 14:40 (Wilson) Dante a work of art, not a blueprint for hell 15:00 (Wilson) “It’s bad and it’s forever.” 15:49 (Wilson) Open to discuss C.S. Lewis’ view in The Problem of Pain 17:38 Problems with the Lewis view 19:42 Seven Reasons Why we Cannot Water Down the Lake of Fire 20:33 The “Infinite Sin” argument 21:15 (Wilson) Flip it: Can a finite being do anything infinite? 22:18 Where do you locate Annihilationism on the acceptability spectrum? 25:01 Doug Wilson on Bell and Hell (YouTube video) 26:15 Annihilationism a variation of Universalism? 28:39 Wilson’s exchange with Andrew Perriman 34:10 Wilson’s 3 concerns with Annihilationism 34:28 Concern #1: Annihilation is just what Siddhartha wanted 36:56 Date responds to concern #1 38:30 Wilson interacts with Date’s response 41:01 Concern #2: Justice and Annihilationism 43:14 Wilson talks to this second of his concerns 45:30 Concern 2.5 (?): Degrees of Punishment 52:15 Concern #3: Consensus throughout Church History 55:25 Date responds 58:00 Wilson interacts with Date’s response 62:20 Wrapping Up: Parting Message from Wilson 63:30 Where to find Pastor Wilson online 64:10 Outro Music 64:19 Chris Date closes the episode 64:50 Closing theme music
