I wouldn’t call that “very very specific”, since the words are destruction
True, here Jesus is speaking about the alternative to the everlasting life. But I don’t know—is there a branch of Christian theology which holds that it’s heaven or nothing—as in, if God doesn’t let you into heaven you don’t go to hell but just cease to exist?
P.S. As far as I remember there are mainstream Christian interpretations of hell as nothing more than absence of God’s love/grace.
Seventh-day Adventists appear to be annihilationist as well. Then there are Universalists, who insist that Aeonian in the first Century CE could not possibly mean “eternal”, so that everyone eventually gets out of Hell.
True, here Jesus is speaking about the alternative to the everlasting life. But I don’t know—is there a branch of Christian theology which holds that it’s heaven or nothing—as in, if God doesn’t let you into heaven you don’t go to hell but just cease to exist?
P.S. As far as I remember there are mainstream Christian interpretations of hell as nothing more than absence of God’s love/grace.
Some Jehova’s witnesses who I tried to deconvert at my door seemed to believe that. It was eternal life in paradise on earth or nothing.
Ah, yes, it seems Jehova’s Witnesses do have a “doctrine of annihilation” and for them it is heaven or nothing.
Seventh-day Adventists appear to be annihilationist as well. Then there are Universalists, who insist that Aeonian in the first Century CE could not possibly mean “eternal”, so that everyone eventually gets out of Hell.
I like the Eastern Orthodox version: Heaven for everyone—like it or not.