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John Piper on the final state of the lost

B. 1946 · REFORMED BAPTIST
STANDARD SCHOLARLY ACCOUNTAFFIRMS°
STANCE

Eternal conscious punishment

THE POSITION

Eternal conscious punishment.

WHY THERE IS NO QUOTATIONOne quotation, on spiritual-warfare, from a freely published Ask Pastor John episode, and copyright is not the reason the rest have none. This map quotes MacArthur, Heiser and Sproul at length, all modern authors in copyright, and the Sproul pass was built on freely published video rather than his books. Piper is in the same position: what is missing for the other ten positions is a primary-source pass, which nobody has run. They are established — well-attested accounts of his views, not checked against his own words — and they stay there until someone does the work.

SCRIPTURE
MATTHEW 25:46 · BSB

46 And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

25 OTHERS HOLD THIS

AquinasJacobus ArminiusAthanasiusAugustineVoddie BauchamCalvinChrysostomJonathan EdwardsThe Church of Eleven22 Statement of FaithCharles Grandison FinneyBilly GrahamJosh HowertonTim KellerSecond London Baptist ConfessionLutherJohn MacArthurPhilip MelanchthonWilliam of OckhamJohn OwenJustin PetersJohn Duns ScotusR.C. SproulWestminster ConfessionGeorge WhitefieldZwingli
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Longtime pastor of Bethlehem Baptist, Minneapolis, and founder of Desiring God. Reformed soteriology combined with continuationism and historic premillennialism.

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

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