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Annihilationism

The wicked are finally annihilated rather than eternally punished — a Socinian-then-conditionalist position rejected by XXXIII.2's 'everlasting destruction.'

This is a contested or rejected alternative.

The Westminster baseline on Final Judgment is Single-Universal-Judgment-By-Christ. Personas and schools listed below hold this alternative position instead — either because they argued for it at the Assembly (like the Erastians on polity) or because they represent a receiving tradition that departed from the Standards on this point.

Cruxes on this attribute

The Assembly navigated 1 crux that bear directly on Final Judgment.

The Final Judgment and the Last Things 1647 One final judgement, by Christ, with eternal consequences.

Other positions on Final Judgment

Single-Universal-Judgment-By-Christ WCF God hath appointed a day wherein he will judge the world in righteousness by Jesus Christ; the righteous to everlasting life, the wicked to everlasting destruction (WCF XXXIII.1–2; SC Q. 38). Two-Resurrections-Premillennial Two distinct resurrections separated by a millennial reign — the premillennial scheme; the Standards do not adopt this language but neither do they exclude it. Universal-Restoration All shall finally be saved (Origen's *apokatastasis*; some seventeenth-century radicals) — rejected by XXXIII.2.

Cite this position

Study Reformed, “Annihilationism” (Position), Westminster Standards Atlas, version 79a5f9880ac1, https://studyreformed.com/atlas/cite/position/civil_last_things/final_judgment/annihilationism/.

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