Over the years we have written several articles about the meaning of words like “for ever and ever,” and we have read many different articles from the pens of others on the same theme. Each of us has in his own way tried to wrestle with the fact that we have no confidence in The English translations, knowing that “Conscious Everlasting Torment” is an affront to the Divine Nature. However, there has always been a niggle at the back of my mind over the translation. No matter how hard I have tried to justify translating the Greek word AION as something other than ‘ever’, it has always left that slight feeling at the back of my mind that I might have been twisting things for the sake of “correct theology”. Let me say right now that I maintain the theology of Ultimate Reconciliation without a shadow of doubt. [Read more…]
Archives for October 1997
105. Secret Numerical Codes in Biblical Hebrew and Greek
In recent days we have seen a great deal of publicity on the discovery of hidden messages in the Torah, the five books of the Mosaic Law, based on what are now called “equidistant letter sequences” (ELS). These have only been discovered due to the rise of high-speed computers, and therefore the information could never have been available prior to the last twenty years or so. [Read more…]