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Justin Peters on the final state of the lost

LIVING · REFORMED BAPTIST / DISPENSATIONAL
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STANCE

Eternal conscious punishment

Satan and all those who follow him will be destroyed and cast into the lake of fire, specifically Hell, and will consciously suffer God's active judgment for all of eternity.
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THE POSITION

Eternal conscious torment, stated in those terms. Satan and all who follow him are cast into the lake of fire and consciously suffer God's active judgment for ever. The active is deliberate — this is not absence from God but God's own sustained judgment.

SCRIPTURE
REVELATION 20:9-10 · BSB

9 And they marched across the broad expanse of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. But fire came down from heaven and consumed them. 10 And the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur, into which the beast and the false prophet had already been thrown. There they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

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AquinasJacobus ArminiusAthanasiusAugustineVoddie BauchamCalvinChrysostomJonathan EdwardsThe Church of Eleven22 Statement of FaithJosh HowertonTim KellerSecond London Baptist ConfessionLutherJohn MacArthurPhilip MelanchthonJohn OwenJohn PiperR.C. SproulWestminster ConfessionZwingli
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Discernment evangelist whose Clouds Without Water seminar — grown from his Th.M. thesis on Benny Hinn — is the best-known evangelical critique of the Word of Faith movement, and since 2026 senior pastor of a church plant outside Billings, Montana.

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"Justin Peters on the final state of the lost", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/peters/final-state (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/peters/final-state).

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