This is one name for the view that the wicked will not suffer an everlasting conscious hell. In other words, only the saved live forever; the damned are utterly destroyed once for all. I think another name for this view is “conditionalism.”

This is a new idea to me. The only thing I can remotely relate to it is “apocatastasis,” the view that in the end Hell will be empty. Origen held this view and it’s the main reason the Catholic Church never declared him a saint. (That plus he castrated himself.) But Origen’s view was that God willed the salvation of all and so, in the end, all would be saved. That’s not annihilationism, which holds (as I understand it) that the lost do not have an afterlife, or at most a minute one.


Is anyone here an adherent of the view? Does anyone here *know* an adherent of this view?