Extermination or Restoration?: A Restorationists’ Response to Annihilationism

By George Hurd

The doctrine of eternal torments, first taught by the Pharisees and later popularized within the Christian Church by Augustine in the fifth century, has recently come under scrutiny and is being rejected by an ever increasing number of conservative scholars and serious Bible students who are willing to think outside of the traditional box and question the scriptural validity of their denominational creeds. Those who abandon the doctrine of eternal torments as unbiblical fall into two basic groups: Those who retain the traditional Partialism, or the belief that some will be eternally lost, arguing that the lost will be finally annihilated, and the Universal Restorationists who believe that the lost will be found, cleansed and restored rather than tortured for eternity or exterminated.In his previous book "The Triumph of Mercy" the author presented the biblical basis for Universal Restorationism. Later he published "The Universal Solution" which sets forth Universalism as the solution to the impasse between Calvinists and Arminians. In this title: "Extermination or Restoration?" the author scripturally demonstrates why, in spite of having been raised in a denomination which taught Annihilationism, he came to believe in Universal Reconciliation rather than the final annihilation of the lost.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1983252360
• ISBN13: 9781983252365
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"