{"id":46381,"date":"2022-10-01T02:20:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/will-evil-men-be-annihilated-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:20:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:20:43","slug":"will-evil-men-be-annihilated-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/will-evil-men-be-annihilated-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Evil Men Be Annihilated? – Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"

A querist asks, “Some of our religious friends suggest that from the text in Matthew 10:28, evil men will be completely annihilated (put out of existence) by God through the use of the word, destroy<\/strong>. Is this true?”<\/p>\n

If this is the case, then the rich man in Luke 16:19-31 certainly refutes this argument, since he was aware<\/strong> and conscious<\/strong> of his surroundings plus the fact he was able to communicate with Abraham (Luke 16:24-31).<\/p>\n

W.E. Vine in his Expository Dictionary Of Old And New Testament Words, defines the word “destroy” (Gk. apollumi – Strong’s 622) as used in Matthew 10:28 as “not extinction but ruin, loss, not of being, but of well-being.”<\/p>\n

We also have an example in the Old Testament of God’s people (Israel) being “destroyed” (Heb. Damah – Strong’s 1820 – Hosea 4:6 – marginal reading – Heb. “cut off”) because they “rejected” the knowledge of God.<\/p>\n

Obviously, they were not completely put out of existence (cf. Hosea 4:7-19;5:1-15).<\/p>\n

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