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ID Explicit Statement Reference Position First Appeared Also In
E001 Man was formed from dust (aphar) of the ground (adamah) Gen 2:7 Neutral etc7-01
E002 God breathed the neshamah of chayyim into man's nostrils Gen 2:7 Neutral etc7-01
E003 Man became (wayehi) a living soul (nephesh chayyah) — transformation verb Gen 2:7 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-16, etc7-19, etc7-20
E004 Animals are called nephesh chayyah — same term as applied to man Gen 1:20-21, 24-25 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-16
E005 Man is made in the image (tselem) and likeness (demuth) of God Gen 1:26-27 Neutral etc7-01
E006 In the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die (mot tamut — emphatic death construction) Gen 2:17 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-17
E007 Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return Gen 3:19 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-16, etc7-17
E008 Man was barred from the tree of life lest he... eat, and live for ever Gen 3:22-24 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-07, etc7-16
E009 All creatures with neshamah-ruach-chayyim (breath of spirit of life) died in the flood — applied to all flesh Gen 7:22 Neutral etc7-01
E010 Man and beast have one breath (ruach echad) and the same fate — death and return to dust Ecc 3:19-20 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-03, etc7-04
E011 At death, dust returns to earth and the spirit (ruach) returns to God who gave it Ecc 12:7 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-16, etc7-19
E012 When breath (ruach) departs, in that very day his thoughts perish Psa 146:4 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-09, etc7-16, etc7-19
E013 In death there is no remembrance of God; in the grave none gives thanks Psa 6:5 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-05, etc7-09, etc7-16, etc7-19
E014 The dead praise not the LORD; they go down into silence Psa 115:17 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-05, etc7-09, etc7-16, etc7-19
E015 The dead know not any thing; their love, hatred, and envy have perished Ecc 9:5-6 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-05, etc7-09, etc7-10, etc7-16, etc7-19
E016 In sheol there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom Ecc 9:10 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-05, etc7-09, etc7-16, etc7-19
E017 If God gathers his spirit (ruach) and breath (neshamah), all flesh perishes and returns to dust Job 34:14-15 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-16
E018 When God takes away breath (ruach), creatures die and return to dust; when he sends forth ruach, they are created Psa 104:29-30 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03
E019 Nephesh is used for dead bodies (nephesh meth — dead soul/body) Lev 21:11; Num 6:6 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-16
E020 The soul (nephesh) that sins shall die Ezek 18:4, 20 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-06, etc7-10, etc7-13, etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-17, etc7-20
E021 Rachel's nephesh departed at death Gen 35:18 Neutral etc7-01
E022 Elijah prayed for the child's nephesh to return; the nephesh came into him again and he revived 1 Kgs 17:21-22 Neutral etc7-01
E023 Ruach chayyim (spirit/breath of life) is shared by all flesh — humans and animals together Gen 6:17 Neutral etc7-01
E024 The Spirit (ruach) of God made Elihu; the neshamah of the Almighty gave him life Job 33:4 Neutral etc7-01
E025 There is a spirit (ruach) in man; the neshamah of the Almighty gives understanding Job 32:8 Neutral etc7-01
E026 The neshamah of man is the lamp of the LORD, searching the inner parts Pro 20:27 Neutral etc7-01
E027 God gives neshamah to the people and ruach to those who walk on earth Isa 42:5 Neutral etc7-01
E028 God forms the spirit (ruach) of man within him — using the creation verb yatsar Zec 12:1 Neutral etc7-01
E029 God alone has immortality (athanasia) — monos echon athanasian 1 Tim 6:16 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-06, etc7-08, etc7-09, etc7-11, etc7-13, etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-19, etc7-20
E030 This mortal (thnetos) must put on immortality (athanasia) at resurrection 1 Cor 15:53-54 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-08, etc7-09, etc7-13, etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-19
E031 Those who seek for immortality (aphtharsia) receive eternal life Rom 2:7 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-08, etc7-14, etc7-16, etc7-17
E032 Man is corruptible (phthartos); God is incorruptible (aphthartos) — direct contrast Rom 1:23 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02
E033 The first man Adam was made (egeneto) a living soul (psyche); the last Adam a life-giving spirit (pneuma) 1 Cor 15:45 Neutral etc7-01
E034 The first man is of the earth, earthy (choikos) 1 Cor 15:47 Neutral etc7-01
E035 The body is sown in corruption, raised in incorruption; sown natural, raised spiritual 1 Cor 15:42-44 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02
E036 God can destroy (apollymi) both soul (psyche) and body (soma) in gehenna Matt 10:28 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-05, etc7-06, etc7-08, etc7-09, etc7-10, etc7-11, etc7-13, etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-17, etc7-20, etc7-21
E037 The body without the spirit (pneuma) is dead Jas 2:26 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-03, etc7-16
E038 Those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake — death as sleep, resurrection Dan 12:2 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-04, etc7-07, etc7-13, etc7-16
E039 The dead in Christ shall rise first at the Lord's coming — resurrection as the Christian hope 1 Thess 4:16 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-04, etc7-09, etc7-19
E040 David is not ascended into the heavens Acts 2:34 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-04, etc7-09, etc7-10, etc7-16, etc7-19
E041 The OT faithful died not having received the promise — they without us should not be made perfect Heb 11:39-40 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-04, etc7-19
E042 Paul lists pneuma, psyche, and soma together — your whole spirit and soul and body 1 Thess 5:23 Neutral etc7-01
E043 Soul (nephesh/psyche) and spirit (ruach/pneuma) are used in poetic parallelism — synonymous, not two distinct substances Isa 26:9; Luke 1:46-47 Neutral etc7-01
E044 The word of God divides soul and spirit, joints and marrow — parallel structure about penetrating discernment Heb 4:12 Neutral etc7-01
E045 The flesh-spirit contrast in the OT is moral/qualitative: the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses flesh, not spirit Isa 31:3 Neutral etc7-01
E046 Works of the flesh include non-bodily sins: hatred, jealousy, envy, strife, heresies Gal 5:19-21 Neutral etc7-01
E047 To be carnally minded is death — a mindset, not the physical body Rom 8:6 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-03
E048 By one man sin entered the world, and death by sin; death passed upon all men Rom 5:12 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-03
E049 The wages of sin is death; the gift of God is eternal life Rom 6:23 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-05, etc7-06, etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-17, etc7-20
E050 Eternal life is in the Son; he that has not the Son has not life 1 John 5:11-12 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-16
E051 Dead and hades cast into the lake of fire; this is the second death Rev 20:14 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-05, etc7-06, etc7-08, etc7-09, etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-14, etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-17, etc7-21, etc7-22
E052 Every living soul (psyche) in the sea died — psyche applied to sea creatures Rev 16:3 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02
E053 The Shema lists heart, soul, might — three terms for totality of devotion, not three ontological parts Deu 6:5 Neutral etc7-01
E054 The image of God reaffirmed after the Fall: in the image of God made he man — basis for murder prohibition Gen 9:6 Neutral etc7-01
E055 God made man upright; they have sought out many inventions Ecc 7:29 Neutral etc7-01
E056 Man IS the image and glory of God — present tense 1 Cor 11:7 Neutral etc7-01
E057 Men are made after the similitude (homoiosis) of God Jas 3:9 Neutral etc7-01
E058 The new man is renewed in knowledge after the image of the creator Col 3:10 Neutral etc7-01
E059 Man is made a little lower than the angels, crowned with glory and honour, given dominion Psa 8:5-6 Neutral etc7-01
E060 Guard your heart with all diligence, for out of it are the issues of life Pro 4:23 Neutral etc7-01
E061 Paul desires to be clothed upon (resurrection), not unclothed (disembodied) 2 Cor 5:4 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-04, etc7-19
E062 Paul desires to depart and be with Christ — same letter hopes for resurrection (Phil 3:11, 20-21) Phil 1:23 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-04, etc7-19
E063 Jesus tells the thief today shalt thou be with me in paradise — Greek has no punctuation; Jesus was not in paradise that day (John 20:17) Luke 23:43 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-04, etc7-19
E064 Souls under the altar cry How long? — apocalyptic genre, same group participates in first resurrection (Rev 20:4-5) Rev 6:9-11 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-04, etc7-10, etc7-15
E065 God gives to all life (zoe) and breath (pnoe) and all things Acts 17:25 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-16
E066 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life — access restored Rev 22:14 Neutral etc7-01
E067 In the likeness (demuth) of God made he him — male and female Gen 5:1-2 Neutral etc7-01
E068 Animals formed from the ground — same verb (yatsar) and material (adamah) as man Gen 2:19 Neutral etc7-01
E069 Into thy hand I commit my spirit (ruach) — the spirit entrusted to God at death Psa 31:5 Neutral etc7-01
E070 God's wonders are not known in the dark or in the land of forgetfulness Psa 88:10-12 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-05
E071 Jesus calls death sleep and then clarifies Lazarus is dead John 11:11-14 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-04, etc7-09
E072 The dead shall live; awake and sing, ye that dwell in dust — resurrection from dust Isa 26:19 Neutral etc7-01
E073 By man came death; by man came also the resurrection of the dead 1 Cor 15:21-22 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03
E074 Mortal man dwells in houses of clay with foundation in dust Job 4:17-19 Neutral etc7-01
E075 Resurrection depicted as God putting ruach into dead bodies — they live (Ezekiel's dry bones) Ezek 37:5-10, 14 Neutral etc7-01
E076 Corruption cannot inherit incorruption 1 Cor 15:50 Neutral etc7-02
E077 Christ abolished death and brought life and immortality (aphtharsia) to light through the gospel 2 Tim 1:10 Neutral etc7-02 etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-16
E078 Whoever believes in him should not perish (apollymi) but have everlasting life — exhaustive binary alternatives John 3:16 Cond. etc7-02 etc7-03, etc7-05, etc7-06, etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-13, etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-17, etc7-20
E079 The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death 1 Cor 15:26 Neutral etc7-02 etc7-03, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-16, etc7-17
E080 If there is no resurrection, then the dead in Christ are perished (apollymi) 1 Cor 15:18 Cond. etc7-02 etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-09, etc7-10, etc7-16, etc7-19
E081 Those who attain the resurrection from the dead can no longer die (apothneskein ouketi dynantai) Luke 20:35-36 Cond. etc7-02
E082 God is the King eternal, immortal (aphthartos), invisible, the only (monos) wise God 1 Tim 1:17 Neutral etc7-02
E083 The dead shall be raised incorruptible (aphthartos), and we shall all be changed 1 Cor 15:52 Neutral etc7-02
E084 The wicked shall be stubble; the day that cometh shall burn them up, leaving neither root nor branch; they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet Mal 4:1-3 Cond. etc7-02 etc7-05, etc7-06, etc7-07, etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-20, etc7-21
E085 The Father has life in himself; and has given to the Son to have life in himself John 5:26 Neutral etc7-02
E086 He will swallow up death in victory Isa 25:8 Neutral etc7-02 etc7-03, etc7-13, etc7-16, etc7-17
E087 The wicked shall be cut off; yet a little while and the wicked shall not be; his place shall be empty Ps 37:9-10 Cond. etc7-02
E088 Ye shall not surely die — the serpent directly contradicts God's death warning (mot tamut negated: lo mot temutun) Gen 3:4 Neutral etc7-03 etc7-16
E089 Man dies, lies down, riseth not until the end; his sons come to honour, and he knoweth it not — the dead are unconscious of events on earth Job 14:10-12, 21 Cond. etc7-03 etc7-04, etc7-09
E090 The grave cannot praise thee, death can not celebrate thee: they that go down into the pit cannot hope for thy truth. The living, the living, he shall praise thee Isa 38:18-19 Cond. etc7-03 etc7-04, etc7-05, etc7-09, etc7-19
E091 Dead in trespasses and sins; quickened us together with Christ — spiritual death metaphor using zoopoieo (made alive) as remedy Eph 2:1, 5 Neutral etc7-03
E092 Dead in your sins; hath he quickened together with him — parallel spiritual death metaphor Col 2:13 Neutral etc7-03
E093 She that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth — spiritual death paradox, person called dead while physically alive 1 Tim 5:6 Neutral etc7-03
E094 He that loveth not his brother abideth in death — spiritual death as present state of the unloving 1 John 3:14 Neutral etc7-03
E095 Is passed from death unto life — spiritual transition from death-state to life through believing John 5:24 Neutral etc7-03
E096 Alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them — describes spiritual condition of living people, not physical death Eph 4:18 Neutral etc7-03
E097 Your iniquities have separated between you and your God — relational estrangement of living people, not definition of physical death Isa 59:1-2 Neutral etc7-03
E098 He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death — thanatos vocabulary used for the second death Rev 2:11 Neutral etc7-03 etc7-13
E099 On such the second death hath no power — exousia (authority/power) over non-participants of the first resurrection Rev 20:6 Neutral etc7-03 etc7-13, etc7-14
E100 The fearful, unbelieving, etc. shall have their part in the lake of fire, which is the second death — wicked's fate identified with thanatos Rev 21:8 Neutral etc7-03 etc7-05, etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-14, etc7-15
E101 Fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them — katephagen (consumed/devoured) used for human armies encountering divine fire Rev 20:9 Neutral etc7-03 etc7-06, etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-14, etc7-15, etc7-20, etc7-21, etc7-22
E102 There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain — universal declaration about the new creation Rev 21:4 Neutral etc7-03 etc7-13, etc7-16, etc7-17
E103 The devil, beast, and false prophet shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever — torment vocabulary applied to non-human/symbolic subjects Rev 20:10 Neutral etc7-03 etc7-05, etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-14, etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-20, etc7-21, etc7-22
E104 Beast and false prophet cast alive into the lake of fire; the remnant were slain with the sword — different vocabulary for symbolic entities vs. humans Rev 19:20-21 Neutral etc7-03 etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-15
E105 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction Hos 13:14 Neutral etc7-03 etc7-05
E106 All the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died — fulfillment of the mot tamut warning Gen 5:5 Neutral etc7-03
E107 I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life — life-death binary as choice Deut 30:15, 19 Neutral etc7-03
E108 It is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment — death as universal appointment followed by judgment Heb 9:27 Neutral etc7-03
E109 Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death — death as terminal result of sin's full development James 1:15 Neutral etc7-03
E110 By him all things consist — Christ sustains all existence (synistemi, Perf.Act.Ind) Col 1:17 Neutral etc7-03
E111 Upholding all things by the word of his power — God actively sustains all existence Heb 1:3 Neutral etc7-03
E112 Shall the dust praise thee? shall it declare thy truth? Psa 30:9 Cond. etc7-04
E113 They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise; their memory perished Isa 26:14 Cond. etc7-04 etc7-06
E114 The wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest. There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor Job 3:17-18 Cond. etc7-04
E115 I will raise him up at the last day -- repeated four times by Jesus John 6:39-40,44,54 Neutral etc7-04
E116 All that are in the graves shall hear his voice, and shall come forth John 5:28-29 Neutral etc7-04
E117 Lord Jesus, receive my spirit (pneuma); and he fell asleep (ekoimathe) -- spirit-commitment and sleep language in the same narrative Acts 7:59-60 Neutral etc7-04 etc7-19
E118 Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours Rev 14:13 Neutral etc7-04 etc7-10
E119 They lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. This is the first resurrection -- the souls come to life at the resurrection event, not before Rev 20:4-5 Neutral etc7-04 etc7-10
E120 Thou shalt sleep with thy fathers -- God himself uses sleep as a metaphor for death Deu 31:16 Neutral etc7-04
E121 David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David 1 Ki 2:10 Neutral etc7-04
E122 God is not the God of the dead, but of the living -- Jesus introduces this to prove RESURRECTION, not intermediate state Matt 22:31-32 Neutral etc7-04
E123 There is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day -- reward at the appearing, not at death 2 Tim 4:8 Neutral etc7-04 etc7-19
E124 Jesus calls the transfiguration the vision (horama G3705) -- not a literal encounter with disembodied spirits Matt 17:9 Neutral etc7-04
E125 The rich man in hades, being in torments -- parabolic character within a parabolic discourse (Luke 15:3 genre label); Abraham's bosom appears only here Luke 16:23 Neutral etc7-04 etc7-05, etc7-09, etc7-15
E126 Willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord -- two aorist infinitives connected by kai, no temporal relationship specified by the grammar 2 Cor 5:8 Neutral etc7-04 etc7-19
E127 One member perishes (apollymi), rather than the whole body be cast into gehenna Matt 5:29-30 Cond. etc7-05
E128 God, after killing, has power to cast into gehenna Luke 12:5 Cond. etc7-05 etc7-20
E129 Beast-worshippers tormented with fire and brimstone; smoke of their torment ascends forever Rev 14:10-11 Neutral etc7-05 etc7-06, etc7-09, etc7-11, etc7-13, etc7-15, etc7-20, etc7-22
E130 Korah and company go down into sheol and perish (abad) from the congregation Num 16:30,33 Cond. etc7-05
E131 They shall be as though they had not been Obad 1:16 Cond. etc7-05 etc7-06, etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-21
E132 Punished with everlasting destruction (olethros) from the presence of the Lord 2 Thess 1:9 Cond. etc7-05 etc7-06, etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-13, etc7-14, etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-17, etc7-20, etc7-21, etc7-22
E133 Carcasses (peger = corpses) of transgressors consumed by worm and fire Isa 66:24 Cond. etc7-05 etc7-06, etc7-07, etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-14, etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-20, etc7-21
E134 Sodom set forth as example of eternal fire Jude 1:7 Neutral etc7-05 etc7-06, etc7-07, etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-16, etc7-17, etc7-22
E135 Edom's smoke goes up forever; lies waste generation to generation Isa 34:9-10 Neutral etc7-05 etc7-06, etc7-07, etc7-11, etc7-13, etc7-15, etc7-22
E136 Peter quotes Ps 16:10 with hades replacing sheol Acts 2:27 Neutral etc7-05
E137 Christ's soul was not left in hades; his flesh did not see corruption Acts 2:31 Neutral etc7-05
E138 Paul quotes Hosea 13:14 with hades replacing sheol 1 Cor 15:55 Neutral etc7-05
E139 LXX translates sheol as hades in ~58 of ~65 instances LXX data Neutral etc7-05
E140 KJV translates sheol as grave 26 times and hell 31 times KJV data Neutral etc7-05
E141 Jacob, a righteous patriarch, expects sheol as his destination Gen 37:35 Neutral etc7-05
E142 Christ went to hades/sheol Ps 16:10; Acts 2:27,31 Neutral etc7-05
E143 Gehenna (G1067) occurs 12 times; Jesus uses it 11 times, James 1 time NT data Neutral etc7-05
E144 Gehenna collocates with fire 6 times and apollymi 3 times; never with basanizo NT data Neutral etc7-05
E145 Tartaroo (G5020) occurs once, as a verb, applied to angels only 2 Pet 2:4 Neutral etc7-05
E146 Angels cast to tartaroo are reserved unto judgment -- temporary imprisonment 2 Pet 2:4 Neutral etc7-05
E147 The contrast in gehenna passages is consistently enter life vs. gehenna Matt 18:9; Mark 9:43,45,47 Neutral etc7-05
E148 Gehenna of fire -- fire is gehenna's defining characteristic Matt 5:22 Neutral etc7-05
E149 Death and hades personified together; their power is to kill Rev 6:8 Neutral etc7-05 etc7-10
E150 Christ holds the keys of hades and death Rev 1:18 Neutral etc7-05
E151 Gates of hades shall not prevail against the church Matt 16:18 Neutral etc7-05
E152 Capernaum brought down to hades -- humiliation imagery Matt 11:23; Luke 10:15 Neutral etc7-05
E153 Tongue set on fire of gehenna -- metaphorical use James 3:6 Neutral etc7-05
E154 Child of gehenna -- Semitic idiom of characterization Matt 23:15 Neutral etc7-05
E155 Damnation (krisis = judgment) of gehenna Matt 23:33 Neutral etc7-05
E156 Rephaim (shades/dead) characterized by weakness, not consciousness Isa 14:10; Job 26:5; Ps 88:10 Neutral etc7-05
E157 Sheol paired with Abaddon (destruction) in 5+ passages Job 26:6; Ps 88:11; Prov 15:11; 27:20 Neutral etc7-05
E158 Abaddon = Apollyon = Destroyer (from apollymi) Rev 9:11 Neutral etc7-05
E159 Valley of Hinnom: geographic boundary (Joshua), child sacrifice (Kings/Chronicles), prophetic curse = Valley of Slaughter (Jeremiah), post-exilic settlement (Nehemiah) Josh 15:8; 2 Ki 23:10; Jer 7:31-32; Neh 11:30 Neutral etc7-05
E160 God condemned child sacrifice in the Valley of Hinnom: I commanded not... neither came it into my heart Jer 7:31; 32:35 Neutral etc7-05
E161 Jeremiah renames Valley of Hinnom as Valley of Slaughter -- burial ground Jer 7:32; 19:6 Neutral etc7-05
E162 Whoever not found in book of life cast into lake of fire -- no torment vocabulary for humans Rev 20:15 Neutral etc7-05 etc7-13, etc7-14
E163 When humans encounter lake of fire, the text uses second death; when devil/beast/false prophet encounter it, the text uses tormented Rev 20:10,14-15; 21:8 Neutral etc7-05 etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-14, etc7-20, etc7-21
E164 Everlasting punishment (kolasis aionios) vs. eternal life (zoe aionios); same adjective modifies both Matt 25:46 Neutral etc7-05 etc7-06, etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-13, etc7-14, etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-17, etc7-20, etc7-21
E165 Everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels Matt 25:41 Neutral etc7-05 etc7-06, etc7-08, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-14, etc7-15, etc7-21
E166 Everlasting contempt (deraon) -- word appears only in Dan 12:2 and Isa 66:24 (corpse context) Dan 12:2 Neutral etc7-05 etc7-07, etc7-08, etc7-14, etc7-15
E167 Angels in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day Jude 1:6 Neutral etc7-05
E168 Mark 9:43-48 quotes Isaiah 66:24; in Isaiah, subjects are carcasses (peger = dead bodies) Mark 9:43-48; Isa 66:24 Neutral etc7-05 etc7-15, etc7-20
E169 Basanizo (G928) never co-occurs with gehenna in any NT passage NT data Neutral etc7-05
E170 The way of the ungodly shall perish (abad, Qal impf) Psa 1:6 Cond. etc7-06
E171 The wicked shall perish (abad), the enemies of the LORD shall consume (kalah); into smoke shall they consume away Psa 37:20 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-11, etc7-13, etc7-16, etc7-21
E172 Yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be (ayin); his place shall not be (ayin) Psa 37:10 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-21
E173 Consume (kalah) them in wrath, consume them, that they may not be (ayin) Psa 59:13 Cond. etc7-06
E174 Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth, and let the wicked be no more (ayin) Psa 104:35 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-11, etc7-21
E175 The wicked shall be destroyed (shamad) for ever (adey-ad) Psa 92:7 Cond. etc7-06
E176 The transgressors shall be destroyed (shamad) together; the end of the wicked shall be cut off (karath) Psa 37:38 Cond. etc7-06
E177 The LORD preserveth (shamar) all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy (shamad) Psa 145:20 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-17
E178 He shall perish (abad) for ever like his own dung Job 20:7 Cond. etc7-06
E179 Broad is the way that leadeth to destruction (apoleia); narrow is the way to life Matt 7:13-14 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-08
E180 Except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish (apollymi) Luke 13:3,5 Cond. etc7-06
E181 Whose end (telos) is destruction (apoleia) Phil 3:19 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-13
E182 Sodom turned to ashes as an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly 2 Pet 2:6 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-07, etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-17, etc7-21, etc7-22
E183 Reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition (apoleia) of ungodly men 2 Pet 3:7 Cond. etc7-06
E184 Not willing that any should perish (apollymi), but that all should come to repentance 2 Pet 3:9 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-17
E185 Fiery indignation, which shall devour (esthio) the adversaries Heb 10:27 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-14, etc7-17, etc7-21
E186 Foolish and hurtful lusts drown men in destruction (olethros) and perdition (apoleia) 1 Tim 6:9 Cond. etc7-06
E187 Vessels of wrath fitted to destruction (apoleia) Rom 9:22 Cond. etc7-06
E188 Drawing back unto perdition (apoleia); believing to the saving of the soul Heb 10:39 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-14
E189 I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth; never shalt thou be any more (ayin + olam) Ezek 28:18-19 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-15
E190 He shall destroy (shamad) the sinners thereof out of it Isa 13:9 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-22
E191 They that forsake the LORD shall be consumed (kalah); they shall both burn together, none shall quench Isa 1:28,31 Cond. etc7-06
E192 He will make an utter end (kalah); devoured as stubble fully dry Nah 1:8-10 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-11, etc7-22
E193 As wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish (abad) at the presence of God Psa 68:2 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-11, etc7-21
E194 The enemies of the LORD shall perish (abad); all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered Psa 92:9 Cond. etc7-06
E195 God repayeth them that hate him to their face, to destroy (abad, Hiphil) them Deut 7:10 Cond. etc7-06
E196 Ye shall surely perish (abad, inf abs). As the nations which the LORD destroyeth, so shall ye perish Deut 8:19-20 Cond. etc7-06
E197 The LORD shall send cursing... until thou be destroyed (shamad) and until thou perish (abad) quickly Deut 28:20-22 Cond. etc7-06
E198 The flood came, and destroyed (apollymi) them all; fire and brimstone destroyed (apollymi) them all Luke 17:27,29 Neutral etc7-06 etc7-11
E199 The beast shall go into perdition (apoleia); was, and is not Rev 17:8,11 Neutral etc7-06
E200 There is one lawgiver, who is able to save (sozo) and to destroy (apollymi) Jam 4:12 Neutral etc7-06
E201 The preaching of the cross is to them that perish (apollymi) foolishness; unto us which are saved (sozo), power of God 1 Cor 1:18 Cond. etc7-06
E202 We are a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish (apollymi) 2 Cor 2:15 Cond. etc7-06
E203 I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish (apollymi) John 10:28 Cond. etc7-06
E204 It is not the will of your Father that one of these little ones should perish (apollymi) Matt 18:14 Cond. etc7-06
E205 None of them is lost (apollymi), but the son of perdition (apoleia) John 17:12 Neutral etc7-06
E206 As the morning cloud, early dew, chaff, and smoke (four dissipation similes) Hos 13:3 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-11, etc7-21
E207 He passed away, and was not (ayin); I sought him, but he could not be found Psa 37:36 Cond. etc7-06
E208 The wicked shall be cut off (karath) from the earth; transgressors rooted out Prov 2:22 Cond. etc7-06
E209 The same root shachath describes both sin (corrupt) and judgment (destroy) in Gen 6:11-13 Gen 6:11-13 Neutral etc7-06
E210 False teachers bring upon themselves swift destruction (apoleia); their pernicious ways (apoleia); their damnation (apoleia) 2 Pet 2:1-3 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-16
E211 LXX translates abad (H6) as apollymi 141 of 219 abad occurrences LXX translation data Neutral etc7-06
E212 LXX translates shamad (H8045) as apollymi 23 times LXX translation data Neutral etc7-06
E213 LXX translates kalah (H3615) as synteleo 85 times LXX translation data Neutral etc7-06
E214 LXX translates shachath (H7843) as diaphtheiro 48 times LXX translation data Neutral etc7-06
E215 Destruction vocabulary and torment vocabulary are distinct word families with different roots and non-overlapping definitions NT vocabulary data Neutral etc7-06
E216 No lexicon defines any of the seven destruction words (abad, shamad, kalah, shachath, apollymi, apoleia, olethros) as torment or ongoing conscious suffering Lexical data Neutral etc7-06
E217 apollymi used for lost sheep/coin/son in Luke 15 (recoverable loss, parabolic context) Luke 15:4-32 Neutral etc7-06
E218 olethros used for disciplinary destruction of the flesh with salvation-purpose clause 1 Cor 5:5 Neutral etc7-06
E219 apoleia used for waste of ointment (ointment used up/consumed) Matt 26:8 Neutral etc7-06
E220 Olam = 3 days in Jonah 2:6; until death in Exo 21:6 -- context-dependent duration word Jon 2:6; Exo 21:6 Neutral etc7-06
E221 Eternal redemption (Heb 9:12), eternal judgment (Heb 6:2), eternal salvation (Heb 5:9) -- all permanent results of completed actions Heb 9:12; 6:2; 5:9 Neutral etc7-06 etc7-08, etc7-15
E222 Olam applied to Aaronic priesthood (everlasting priesthood), which was changed per Heb 7:12 Exo 40:15; Num 25:13; Heb 7:12 Cond. etc7-07
E223 Olam applied to 20+ Mosaic ceremonial statutes (statute for ever) that have ceased Exo 12:14; Lev 16:34; et al. Cond. etc7-07
E224 Solomon's temple dedicated for ever (olamim); destroyed 586 BC and AD 70 1 Ki 8:13; 2 Ch 7:16 Cond. etc7-07
E225 Olam applied to slave service (serve him for ever = one lifetime) Exo 21:6; Deu 15:17 Cond. etc7-07
E226 Olam applied to Jonah's confinement (for ever = three days) Jon 2:6 Cond. etc7-07
E227 Olam applied to Samuel's temple service (abide for ever = his lifetime; text defines as as long as he liveth) 1 Sam 1:22,28 Cond. etc7-07
E228 God explicitly revokes an olam promise: I said for ever: but now, Be it far from me 1 Sam 2:30 Cond. etc7-07
E229 Saul's olam kingdom revoked: would have established for ever. But now thy kingdom shall not continue 1 Sam 13:13-14 Cond. etc7-07
E230 Olam refers to past time (of old, ancient) in approximately 30 occurrences Gen 6:4; Deu 32:7; Jer 6:16; 18:15; 28:8; Mic 5:2; Psa 24:7,9; Isa 63:9,11 Cond. etc7-07
E231 Edom's smoke goes up olam (Isa 34:10) yet animals inhabit the territory (34:11-17); olam smoke ended Isa 34:10-17 Cond. etc7-07 etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-17, etc7-22
E232 Fire burns olam (Jer 17:4) fulfilled when Nebuchadnezzar burned Jerusalem 586 BC; fire not still burning Jer 17:4,27 Cond. etc7-07
E233 Olam applied to circumcision (everlasting covenant); superseded per Gal 5:2-6 Gen 17:13; Gal 5:2,6 Cond. etc7-07
E234 Earth abides olam (Ecc 1:4) but will pass away (Isa 51:6; 2 Pet 3:10) Ecc 1:4; Isa 51:6; 2 Pet 3:10 Cond. etc7-07 etc7-11
E235 Everlasting mountains (olam) were scattered (Hab 3:6) Hab 3:6 Cond. etc7-07
E236 Aramaic alam in O king, live for ever -- acknowledged as non-literal (kings died) Dan 2:4; 3:9; 5:10; 6:6,21; Neh 2:3 Cond. etc7-07
E237 Netsach and olam used in synonymous parallelism to deny God's wrath is perpetual Psa 103:9; Isa 57:16; Jer 3:5 Cond. etc7-07 etc7-17, etc7-22
E238 God states: the spirit would fail before me, and the souls which I have made -- human mortality limits divine contention Isa 57:16 Cond. etc7-07 etc7-17, etc7-22
E239 Olam root alam (H5956) means to conceal/hide; Strong's defines H5769 as concealed, i.e. the vanishing point H5769 definition Neutral etc7-07
E240 Olam (H5769) translated 40+ ways in KJV: for ever (198x), everlasting (56x), of old (13x), ancient (4x) H5769 translation data Neutral etc7-07
E241 LXX translates olam as aion (G165) 287 times and as aionios (G166) 100 times LXX translation data Neutral etc7-07 etc7-08
E242 LXX translates olam as genea (generation) 51 times LXX translation data Neutral etc7-07
E243 Olam applied to God: everlasting God (Gen 21:33), from everlasting to everlasting (Psa 90:2) -- genuinely eternal because subject is eternal Gen 21:33; Psa 90:2; Isa 40:28; 57:15; Deu 33:27 Neutral etc7-07
E244 Dan 12:2 uses olam for both everlasting life and everlasting contempt with identical construct chain grammar in the same verse Dan 12:2 Neutral etc7-07 etc7-08
E245 Combined form le-olam va-ed used for God's reign, wicked's destruction, and stars Exo 15:18; Psa 9:5; 148:6 Neutral etc7-07
E246 Christ's priesthood is unchangeable because He continueth ever; Aaronic priests died Heb 7:24 Neutral etc7-07
E247 Aidios (G126, strictly everduring) exists as separate word alongside aionios (G166); only 2 NT uses (Rom 1:20; Jude 1:6) Rom 1:20; Jude 1:6 Neutral etc7-07 etc7-08, etc7-16
E248 Aionios used for past time: since/before the world began -- past-time uses confirm non-eternal capacity Rom 16:25; 2 Tim 1:9; Tit 1:2 Neutral etc7-07 etc7-08, etc7-15
E249 Aionios (G166) defined by Strong's as from G165; perpetual (also used of past time, or past and future) G166 definition Neutral etc7-08
E250 Aion (G165) defined as properly an age; by extension perpetuity; 120 NT occurrences G165 definition Neutral etc7-08
E251 Aidios (G126) defined as everduring, derived from aei (G104, always); occurs only 2x in NT (Rom 1:20; Jude 1:6) G126 definition Neutral etc7-08
E252 Aidios (G126) has no Hebrew source in the LXX; LXX translators never chose aidios for olam LXX data Neutral etc7-08
E253 Aionios in LXX also translates dor (generation, 23x), chuqqah (statute, 20x), berith (covenant, 20x), choq (enactment, 14x) LXX data Neutral etc7-08
E254 KJV translates aion (G165) as world (an age/era) 30 times, reflecting its basic meaning as an age or era KJV data Neutral etc7-08
E255 End of the world (Matt 24:3) is literally end of the age (synteleia tou aionos); the age has an end Matt 24:3 Neutral etc7-08
E256 Aionios modifies life (zoe) approximately 43 times, about 60 percent of its 71 NT occurrences NT distribution Neutral etc7-08
E257 Aionios modifies punishment/judgment subjects only approximately 7 times, about 10 percent of occurrences NT distribution Neutral etc7-08
E258 Ages of ages formula used approximately 19 times doxologically and only 3 times in judgment (Rev 14:11; 19:3; 20:10), all in Revelation NT distribution Neutral etc7-08
E259 Sows to flesh reaps corruption (phthora); sows to Spirit reaps life everlasting Gal 6:8 Cond. etc7-08
E260 Kolasis (G2851) occurs only 2x in NT (Matt 25:46; 1 John 4:18); root kolazo means to curtail G2851 data Neutral etc7-08 etc7-20
E261 Olethros (G3639) in all 4 NT occurrences means ruin/destruction/death, not torment (1 Cor 5:5; 1 Thess 5:3; 2 Thess 1:9; 1 Tim 6:9) G3639 data Neutral etc7-08
E262 Eternal sin (aioniou hamartematos) in Mark 3:29; adjective modifies the sin, not a process of punishment Mark 3:29 Neutral etc7-08
E263 Matt 18:8 everlasting fire = Matt 18:9 gehenna fire; the terms are synonymous Matt 18:8-9 Neutral etc7-08
E264 Believers receive the promise of eternal inheritance; received once, does not expire Heb 9:15 Neutral etc7-08
E265 Philemon 1:15: aionios in human context means permanently (contrast: pros horan vs. aionion) Phm 1:15 Neutral etc7-08
E266 Smoke of torment ascends eis aionas aionon (Rev 14:11); echoes Isa 34:10 (ended judgment) Rev 14:11 Neutral etc7-08 etc7-11, etc7-16, etc7-22
E267 Symbolic Babylon's smoke rises eis tous aionas ton aionon Rev 19:3 Neutral etc7-08 etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-15
E268 Basanismos (G929): 6 NT occurrences, ALL in Revelation; 3 of 6 describe Babylon's completed destruction G929 data Neutral etc7-08 etc7-11
E269 No epistle, Gospel, or OT passage uses basanizo/basanismos for the final fate of generic human wicked NT/OT survey Neutral etc7-08 etc7-11, etc7-12
E270 No murderer hath eternal life abiding in him 1 John 3:15 Neutral etc7-08
E271 Abraham sees ascending smoke from Sodom's completed destruction Gen 19:28 Neutral etc7-08 etc7-11
E272 Luke 15:3 provides a single parabole label (singular, with demonstrative tauten) covering the discourse unit Luke 15:3 Neutral etc7-09
E273 Luke 12:16 uses the identical certain rich man (anthropos tis plousios) formula with an explicit parabole label Luke 12:16 Neutral etc7-09
E274 Luke 16:1 uses the identical certain rich man (anthropos tis plousios) formula without a parabole label; universally recognized as parabolic Luke 16:1 Neutral etc7-09
E275 Luke 16:19 uses the identical certain rich man (anthropos tis plousios) formula without a parabole label Luke 16:19 Neutral etc7-09
E276 The rich man in Luke 16:19 is unnamed in the Greek text Luke 16:19 Neutral etc7-09
E277 Lazarus (Lazaros G2976 = Eleazar, God helps) is the only named human character in any parable of Jesus Luke 16:20 Neutral etc7-09
E278 Abraham's bosom (kolpos Abraam G2859) as a post-mortem location appears only in Luke 16:22-23 Luke 16:22-23 Neutral etc7-09
E279 The parable uses basanos G931 (3 total NT occ.), not basanizo G928 (12 occ.) for the rich man's torment Luke 16:23,28 Neutral etc7-09
E280 Luke 16:24-25 uses odunao (G3600), the same word Luke uses for Mary's grief (2:48) and the Ephesian elders' grief (Acts 20:38) Luke 16:24-25 Neutral etc7-09
E281 Chasma (G5490) in Luke 16:26 is a hapax legomenon -- appears only here in the entire NT Luke 16:26 Neutral etc7-09
E282 The passage's climactic statement: They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them Luke 16:29 Neutral etc7-09
E283 If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead Luke 16:31 Neutral etc7-09
E284 The Pharisees are identified as covetous (philargyroi) at 16:14, connecting the discourse to wealth themes Luke 16:14 Neutral etc7-09
E285 David is dead and buried, his sepulchre is with us (same author as Luke 16) Acts 2:29 Neutral etc7-09
E286 Isaiah 14:4 explicitly labels what follows as a mashal (H4912) -- the OT parable/proverb genre marker Isa 14:4 Neutral etc7-09
E287 Dead kings depicted as conscious, speaking, and greeting new arrivals in sheol under the mashal label Isa 14:9-10 Neutral etc7-09
E288 The rich man's dialogue attributes physical body parts (finger, tongue) to supposedly disembodied souls Luke 16:24 Neutral etc7-09
E289 Abel's blood crieth from the ground -- figurative speech from the dead, universally recognized as non-literal Gen 4:10 Neutral etc7-09 etc7-10
E290 Aholah and Aholibah are named characters in an explicitly allegorical passage -- OT precedent for naming in figurative genre Ezek 23:4 Neutral etc7-09
E291 A Lazarus did rise from the dead (John 11:43-44); response was murder plot (John 12:10-11), not repentance John 11:43-44; 12:10-11 Neutral etc7-09
E292 The souls cry with a loud voice: How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? Rev 6:10 Neutral etc7-10 etc7-22
E293 White robes given to each; told to rest (anapauō) for a little season until their fellow servants should be killed Rev 6:11 Neutral etc7-10
E294 Revelation was signified (sēmainō) by God through an angel to John — the book communicates through signs Rev 1:1 Neutral etc7-10 etc7-11, etc7-12
E295 I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments — the altar itself speaks Rev 16:7 Neutral etc7-10 etc7-17
E296 This is the first resurrection — explicitly labels the transition to living as resurrection Rev 20:5 Neutral etc7-10
E297 His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish Ps 146:4 Cond. etc7-10
E298 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence Ps 115:17 Cond. etc7-10
E299 The life (nephesh) of the flesh is in the blood — nephesh = blood = life equation Lev 17:11 Neutral etc7-10
E300 Abel being dead yet speaketh — through his sacrifice (di autēs), not through conscious existence Heb 11:4 Neutral etc7-10
E301 Blood of Christ speaketh better things than that of Abel — blood speaks Heb 12:24 Neutral etc7-10
E302 The hire of the labourers crieth — non-personal entity given voice Jas 5:4 Neutral etc7-10
E303 The stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it — non-personal entities speak Hab 2:11 Neutral etc7-10
E304 The Lamb appears as it had been slain (esphagmenon) with seven horns and seven eyes — symbolic vision-figure Rev 5:6 Neutral etc7-10
E305 Cain slew (esphaxen, sphazō) his brother — same sacrificial slaughter verb as Rev 5:6 and Rev 6:9 1 John 3:12 Neutral etc7-10
E306 The LORD rained brimstone and fire on Sodom and Gomorrah and overthrew the cities Gen 19:24-25 Cond. etc7-11 etc7-13
E307 Babylon shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her Rev 18:8 Neutral etc7-11 etc7-15
E308 Babylon's basanismos comes in one hour — explicitly time-bounded torment Rev 18:10 Neutral etc7-11
E309 Babylon shall be found no more at all — fivefold cessation: music, craftsmen, millstone, candlelight, wedding voices all heard/found no more Rev 18:21-23 Neutral etc7-11 etc7-12, etc7-15, etc7-22
E310 The living creatures rest not (anapausis G372) day and night, saying Holy, holy, holy — same construction as Rev 14:11 (ouk echousin anapausin hemeras kai nuktos) Rev 4:8 Neutral etc7-11 etc7-15
E311 Basanismos (G929) with explicit five-month time limit — torment vocabulary does not require eternal duration Rev 9:5 Neutral etc7-11 etc7-12
E312 The torment occurs in the presence (enopion G1799) of the holy angels and the Lamb — judgment is a public event before the throne Rev 14:10 Neutral etc7-11
E313 The wicked are stubble; fire burns them; not a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before — nothing remains Isa 47:14 Cond. etc7-11
E314 The people shall be as the fuel of the fire — consumed as fuel Isa 9:19 Cond. etc7-11
E315 Rev 20:10 names three subjects for the torment formula: the devil, the beast, and the false prophet — none is identified as a human being Rev 20:10 Neutral etc7-12 etc7-13
E316 Rev 12:9 identifies the dragon as that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan with his angels — four-fold non-human identification chain Rev 12:9 Neutral etc7-12
E317 Rev 20:2 restates the four-fold identification: dragon = old serpent = devil = Satan Rev 20:2 Neutral etc7-12
E318 The beast rises from the sea with seven heads, ten horns, composite body from Daniel 7 beasts — a symbolic entity, not a literal creature or human Rev 13:1-2 Neutral etc7-12 etc7-13
E319 The beast was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit — temporal description impossible for a single human being Rev 17:8 Neutral etc7-12
E320 The false prophet is identified by matching vocabulary (poiesas ta semeia enopion autou) from Rev 13:13-14 as the earth beast of Rev 13:11-17 Rev 19:20 Neutral etc7-12
E321 Pseudoprophetes (G5578) singular in Revelation (3x: Rev 16:13, 19:20, 20:10) = one specific apocalyptic entity; plural elsewhere (7x) = class of human deceivers Rev 16:13; 19:20; 20:10; Matt 7:15; etc. Neutral etc7-12
E322 The devil is the spirit (to pneuma) — explicitly identified as a spirit being, not human Eph 2:2 Neutral etc7-12
E323 Christ took part of flesh and blood that through death he might destroy (katargeo G2673) him that had the power of death, that is, the devil Heb 2:14 Neutral etc7-12 etc7-13
E324 The Son of God was manifested to destroy (luo G3089) the works of the devil 1 John 3:8 Cond. etc7-12
E325 The symbolic fourth beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame — Aramaic destruction vocabulary for a symbolic beast-entity Dan 7:11 Neutral etc7-12 etc7-13
E326 The serpent exists before human sin — a pre-human being (Gen 3:1) Gen 3:1 Neutral etc7-12
E327 Demons use basanizo for their own anticipated fate: Art thou come hither to torment (basanisai) us before the time? Matt 8:29 Neutral etc7-12
E328 Basanizo applied to a ship tossed (basanizomenon) by waves — the word does not require a conscious subject Matt 14:24 Neutral etc7-12
E329 Basanizo used for childbirth pain (basanizomene) within Revelation itself — a non-judgment use of the word Rev 12:2 Neutral etc7-12
E330 Lot vexed (ebasanizen) his righteous soul at Sodom's wickedness — the only epistle occurrence of basanizo is non-judgment moral distress 2 Pet 2:8 Neutral etc7-12
E331 Jesus interprets fire and brimstone from the Sodom paradigm: destroyed (apollymi G622) them all Luke 17:29 Cond. etc7-12 etc7-13, etc7-22
E332 The counterfeit trinity: dragon, beast, and false prophet with three unclean spirits like frogs — a composite symbolic unit Rev 16:13 Neutral etc7-12
E333 The tormented for ever and ever formula (basanisthesontai eis tous aionas ton aionon) appears once in Scripture (Rev 20:10), applied only to the devil, beast, and false prophet — never to any human being Rev 20:10 Neutral etc7-12 etc7-13
E334 X=Y identification formula: the seven stars ARE the angels, the seven candlesticks ARE the seven churches -- Revelation's self-interpreting mechanism using predicate nominative construction Rev 1:20 Neutral etc7-13
E335 X=Y identification formulas: heads ARE mountains (17:9), waters ARE peoples (17:15), woman IS that great city (17:18) -- same predicate nominative pattern as Rev 20:14 Rev 17:9,15,18 Neutral etc7-13
E336 Death and hades delivered up (edokan, V-AAI-3P) the dead which were in them -- personified agents become patients in v.14 (eblethesan, divine passive); active-to-passive voice reversal encodes eschatological reversal Rev 20:13 Neutral etc7-13
E337 The transgressors are slain of the LORD and consumed together before the viewing of their corpses Isa 66:16-17 Cond. etc7-14 etc7-15
E338 Sinners shall perish (apolountai, apollymi G622) -- destruction/cessation vocabulary for the fate of sinners Rom 2:12 Cond. etc7-14
E339 The dead are judged according to their works -- proportional judgment at the great white throne Rev 20:12-13 Neutral etc7-14 etc7-17, etc7-22
E340 Two resurrection outcomes: resurrection of life (anastasis zoes) and resurrection of judgment (anastasis kriseos) -- krisis (G2920) denotes judicial verdict, not ongoing torment John 5:29 Neutral etc7-14
E341 Day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment (dikaiokrisia) of God Rom 2:5 Neutral etc7-14 etc7-17
E342 God will render to every man according to his deeds -- proportionality principle for divine judgment Rom 2:6 Neutral etc7-14 etc7-17
E343 Indignation (thumos) and wrath (orge), tribulation (thlipsis) and anguish (stenochoria) upon every soul that doeth evil Rom 2:8-9 Neutral etc7-14
E344 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy; how much sorer punishment (timoria G5098) for those who tread underfoot the Son of God Heb 10:28-29 Neutral etc7-14 etc7-17
E345 He which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you — Paul's explicit hope is resurrection 2 Cor 4:14 Neutral etc7-19
E346 Death is swallowed up in victory — quoting Isa 25:8 for the resurrection event; katapino (G2666) links to 2 Cor 5:4 1 Cor 15:54 Neutral etc7-19
E347 Believers groan (stenazomen, same form as 2 Cor 5:2,4) waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body Rom 8:23 Neutral etc7-19
E348 So shall we ever be with the Lord — being with the Lord placed at the resurrection/catching-up sequence; houtos specifies the mechanism 1 Thess 4:17 Neutral etc7-19
E349 If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead — Paul's aspiration is resurrection, same letter as Phil 1:23 Phil 3:11 Neutral etc7-19
E350 Whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him — both scenarios (alive or dead at parousia) yield the same outcome 1 Thess 5:10 Neutral etc7-19
E351 We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed — Paul envisions transformation at the parousia without death 1 Cor 15:51 Neutral etc7-19
E352 Jesus committed his spirit to the Father (Luke 23:46) but had not yet ascended to the Father by Sunday (John 20:17) — spirit-commitment does not mean immediate conscious presence Luke 23:46 + John 20:17 Neutral etc7-19
E353 Humans can kill the body but are not able to kill the soul Matt 10:28 Neutral etc7-20 etc7-21
E354 In the same discourse (Matt 10), the word pair psyche + apollymi means lose one's life (Matt 10:39), providing same-context control for the meaning in Matt 10:28 Matt 10:39 Neutral etc7-20
E355 Matt 10:28 uses apollymi (destroy) for God's action on the wicked; Luke 12:5 uses apokteino (kill) for the same logion -- Matthew escalates the verb Matt 10:28; Luke 12:5 Neutral etc7-20 etc7-21
E356 Gehenna collocates with fire (6x) and apollymi (3x) across NT; never collocates with basanizo for human subjects NT-wide Neutral etc7-20
E357 In a parable, the vineyard lord will miserably destroy (apollymi) those wicked men (Matt 21:41) Matt 21:41 Neutral etc7-20 etc7-21
E358 In a parable, the king destroyed (apollymi) those murderers and burned up their city (Matt 22:7) Matt 22:7 Neutral etc7-20 etc7-21
E359 Jesus says my soul (psyche) is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death (heos thanatou) -- Jesus treats his own psyche as approaching death Matt 26:38 Neutral etc7-20
E360 In a parable, tares are gathered to burn them (katakausai, katakaio G2618 aorist active infinitive) Matt 13:30 Neutral etc7-21
E361 In Jesus' self-interpretation, as the tares are gathered and burned (katakaio), so shall it be in the end of this world -- simile with decoded referents Matt 13:40 Neutral etc7-21
E362 Shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth Matt 13:42 Neutral etc7-21
E363 Shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth (verbatim identical to Matt 13:42) Matt 13:50 Neutral etc7-21
E364 The children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth Matt 8:12 Neutral etc7-21
E365 Bind him hand and foot... cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (parabolic character) Matt 22:13 Neutral etc7-21
E366 Cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (parabolic character) Matt 25:30 Neutral etc7-21
E367 Shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth (parabolic character) Matt 24:51 Neutral etc7-21
E368 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob... in the kingdom, and you yourselves thrust out Luke 13:28 Neutral etc7-21
E369 He gnasheth upon me with his teeth; mine enemy -- gnashing = hostile rage Job 16:9 Neutral etc7-21
E370 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth Psa 37:12 Neutral etc7-21
E371 He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish -- gnashing + cessation (masas H4549) + destruction (abad) Psa 112:10 Cond. etc7-21
E372 They hiss and gnash the teeth... We have swallowed her up -- gnashing = hostile triumph Lam 2:16 Neutral etc7-21
E373 They gnashed on him with their teeth -- brycho (G1031) = murderous rage Acts 7:54 Neutral etc7-21
E374 He will burn up (katakaio G2618) the chaff with unquenchable fire (figurative subject -- chaff) Matt 3:12 Neutral etc7-21
E375 The ungodly are like the chaff which the wind driveth away Psa 1:4 Cond. etc7-21
E376 The flame of the fire slew those men -- furnace kills by default Dan 3:22 Neutral etc7-21
E377 They gnashed upon me with their teeth -- gnashing = malice Psa 35:16 Neutral etc7-21
E378 As the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness (subject = Israel, a nation) Isa 5:24 Neutral etc7-21
E379 They shall be as though they had not been Oba 1:16 Cond. etc7-16
E380 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy (philosophias G5385) and vain deceit, after the tradition of men Col 2:8 Neutral etc7-16
E381 In the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils 1 Tim 4:1 Neutral etc7-16
E382 They shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables (mythous G3454) 2 Tim 4:3-4 Neutral etc7-16
E383 After my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you... speaking perverse things to draw away disciples Acts 20:29-30 Neutral etc7-16
E384 God proclaims Himself merciful (rachum), gracious (channun), longsuffering (erek appayim), abundant in lovingkindness (rab chesed) and truth (rab emeth) Exo 34:6-7 Neutral etc7-17
E385 God's mercy extends to thousands; His judgment of iniquity extends unto the third and fourth generation Exo 34:7 Neutral etc7-17
E386 He will not always chide: neither will he keep his anger for ever Psa 103:9 Cond. etc7-17 etc7-22
E387 He retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy Mic 7:18 Cond. etc7-17 etc7-22
E388 He doth not afflict willingly (milibo - from his heart) nor grieve the children of men Lam 3:33 Neutral etc7-17
E389 His anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life Psa 30:5 Neutral etc7-17 etc7-22
E390 For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy Isa 54:7-8 Neutral etc7-17 etc7-22
E391 The work of a man shall he render unto him... God will not do wickedly, neither will the Almighty pervert judgment Job 34:11-12 Neutral etc7-17
E392 Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? Gen 18:25 Neutral etc7-17
E393 Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die? and not that he should return from his ways, and live? Ezek 18:23 Neutral etc7-17
E394 I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth Ezek 18:32 Neutral etc7-17
E395 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live - oath-level statement Ezek 33:11 Neutral etc7-17
E396 Judgment is God's strange work (zar maaseh) and strange act (nokriyyah abodah) - alien to God's character Isa 28:21 Neutral etc7-17
E397 Servant who knew receives many stripes; servant who did not know receives few stripes - graduated punishment Luke 12:47-48 Neutral etc7-17 etc7-22
E398 It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom - degrees of judgment Matt 10:15 Neutral etc7-17
E399 It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon - repeated proportionality Matt 11:22,24 Neutral etc7-17
E400 Every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward (misthapodosia) Heb 2:2 Neutral etc7-17 etc7-22
E401 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy - degrees of punishment Heb 10:29 Neutral etc7-17
E402 He that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons Col 3:25 Neutral etc7-17
E403 God will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth 1 Tim 2:4 Neutral etc7-17
E404 God is love (ho theos agape estin) - love is God's essential nature 1 John 4:8 Neutral etc7-17
E405 A fiery indignation which shall devour the adversaries - esthio (devour/consume) Heb 10:27 Cond. etc7-17
E406 Holiness violation of Nadab/Abihu resulted in death: fire from the LORD devoured them, and they died Lev 10:1-2 Neutral etc7-17
E407 Punishment in Mosaic law according to his fault with maximum of 40 stripes - proportional with limit Deut 25:1-3 Neutral etc7-17 etc7-22
E408 Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face Psa 89:14 Neutral etc7-17
E409 His work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he Deut 32:4 Neutral etc7-17
E410 Sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death Jas 1:15 Neutral etc7-17
E411 Cain's punishment for the first murder: exile and wandering; God set a mark to protect him Gen 4:11-15 Neutral etc7-17
E412 Just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints... for thy judgments are made manifest Rev 15:3-4 Neutral etc7-17
E413 Thou art righteous, O Lord... because thou hast judged thus Rev 16:5 Neutral etc7-17
E414 True and righteous are his judgments - heaven affirms after judgment execution Rev 19:1-2 Neutral etc7-17
E415 God set forth Christ as propitiation to declare his righteousness... that he might be just, and the justifier Rom 3:25-26 Neutral etc7-17
E416 God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us Rom 5:8 Neutral etc7-17
E417 Matt 25:46 uses kolasis (punishment/curtailment), not basanismos (torment) Matt 25:46 Neutral etc7-17
E418 My reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be Rev 22:12 Neutral etc7-17
E419 He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities Psa 103:10 Neutral etc7-17
E420 He knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust Psa 103:14 Neutral etc7-17
E421 The LORD is good to all: and his tender mercies are over all his works Psa 145:8-9 Neutral etc7-17
E422 God commands: Avenge the children of Israel of the Midianites. Result: slew all the males, burnt all their cities with fire Num 31:2,7,10 Neutral etc7-22
E423 God commands Jehu to avenge the blood of my prophets at hand of Jezebel. Result: consumed by dogs, nothing left but skull, feet, palms 2 Kgs 9:7,33,35 Neutral etc7-22
E424 The vengeance of the LORD — purpose: to destroy it (lehashchitah, Hiphil inf. construct of shachath) Jer 51:11 Cond. etc7-22
E425 Babylon vengeance outcome: heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, without an inhabitant Jer 51:36-37 Neutral etc7-22
E426 Babylon vengeance outcome linked to Sodom: As God overthrew Sodom, so shall no man abide there Jer 50:40 Neutral etc7-22
E427 I will ease me of mine adversaries, and avenge me of mine enemies. Result: consumed (kalah), both burn together Isa 1:24,28,31 Neutral etc7-22
E428 He hath judged (ekrinen, aorist) the great whore and hath avenged (exedikesen, aorist) the blood of his servants — completed actions Rev 19:2 Neutral etc7-22
E429 Her smoke rose up for ever and ever — aftermath formula following completed judgment Rev 19:3 Neutral etc7-22
E430 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence — quoted in Rom 12:19 and Heb 10:30 Deut 32:35; Rom 12:19; Heb 10:30 Neutral etc7-22
E431 My sword shall devour flesh — outcome of Song of Moses vengeance Deut 32:42 Neutral etc7-22
E432 He will avenge the blood of his servants and render vengeance to his adversaries — echoed in Rev 6:10, fulfilled in Rev 19:2 Deut 32:43 Neutral etc7-22
E433 Pangs (tsirim) and writhing (chuwl) seize them, then he shall destroy (shamad) the sinners — affliction precedes destruction Isa 13:8-9 Neutral etc7-22
E434 Babylon overthrown as when God overthrew Sodom — outcome of process in Isa 13:8-9 Isa 13:19 Neutral etc7-22
E435 A day of trouble (tsarah) and distress (metsuwqah) then the whole land devoured (akal), speedy riddance (kalah) Zeph 1:15,18 Neutral etc7-22
E436 Great pain (chalchalah) shall be in Ethiopia when the slain shall fall — pain accompanies killing Ezek 30:4 Neutral etc7-22
E437 Moses avenged (ekdikesen, aorist) the oppressed: smiting the Egyptian — a single lethal act Acts 7:24 Neutral etc7-22
E438 Vengeance (ekdikesis) on those who know not God — penalty: everlasting destruction (olethros aionion), not torment 2 Thess 1:8-9 Cond. etc7-22
E439 Hebrew verb alah (H5927) in smoke-ascending passages shares root with olah (H5930, burnt offering) — smoke ascending = complete consumption, same as burnt offering going up to God Gen 19:28; Isa 34:10; Psa 37:20 Neutral etc7-11
E440 Dan 7:9-10 uses thronos, biblion, anoigo, pyr, krisis — same five terms as Rev 20:11-12 via LXX, establishing Dan 7 as the template for Rev 20's judgment scene Dan 7:9-10; Rev 20:11-12 Neutral etc7-13
E441 Smoke of Ai ascended up to heaven — men of Ai see it and know the destruction is complete. Height of smoke = completeness of destruction. Josh 8:20-21 Neutral etc7-11
E442 Flame of Gibeah ascended up to heaven — same pattern: flame reaching heaven = city's destruction is total Judg 20:40 Neutral etc7-11
E443 Babylon's sins have reached unto heaven — physical height communicates accumulated magnitude of sin at maximum scale Rev 18:5 Neutral etc7-11
E444 Cry of Sodom is great and come up unto me — physical ascent of cry communicates severity of sin Gen 18:20-21 Neutral etc7-11
E445 A rage that reacheth up unto heaven — physical height = magnitude of violence reaching maximum scale 2 Chr 28:9 Neutral etc7-11
E446 Her judgment reacheth unto heaven and is lifted up even to the skies — judgment proportional to sin's height Jer 51:9 Neutral etc7-11
E447 Babylon's basanismos IS her destruction process: in one day, death, mourning, famine, utterly burned with fire Rev 18:7-8 Neutral etc7-22
E448 God will avenge (ekdikesis) his elect speedily Luke 18:7-8 Neutral etc7-22
E449 The Lord is the avenger (ekdikos) — divine vengeance role declared 1 Thess 4:6 Neutral etc7-22
E450 Sword that avenges the quarrel of the covenant — naqam paired with lethal consequence Lev 26:25 Neutral etc7-22

Necessary Implications (N)

ID Implication Based On Position First Appeared Also In
N001 Nephesh chayyah is not an exclusively human attribute — it belongs equally to animals E004 Neutral etc7-01
N002 The man did not receive a soul; the combined entity (dust + breath) IS the nephesh E003 Neutral etc7-01
N003 What distinguishes humans from animals is not the possession of nephesh or ruach (which animals share) but the image of God E004,E005,E023,E010 Neutral etc7-01
N004 If God alone has immortality (E29), no human soul possesses immortality inherently E029 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-04
N005 Immortality is not presently possessed by humans but must be acquired at the resurrection E030,E031 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-04
N006 If the tree of life was barred to prevent man from living forever (E8), then man is not inherently immortal E008 Cond. etc7-01
N007 Since nephesh is used for corpses (E19 — nephesh meth), nephesh does not inherently mean immortal entity E019 Neutral etc7-01
N008 Since death is predicated of the nephesh itself (E20 — the nephesh that sins shall die), the nephesh is mortal E020 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-04
N009 Consciousness ceases at death — thoughts perish (E12), the dead know nothing (E15), no work/knowledge/wisdom in sheol (E16) E012,E015,E016 Cond. etc7-01 etc7-04
N010 The flesh-spirit contrast in Scripture is moral/qualitative, not ontological (about parts of man) E045,E046,E047 Neutral etc7-01
N011 The biblical hope for the dead is resurrection, not disembodied survival E038,E039,E040,E041,E075 Neutral etc7-01 etc7-04
N012 Human life depends on God's sustaining breath — withdrawal of breath means death, not transition to another form of existence E017,E018,E065 Neutral etc7-02 etc7-04
N013 The same word (thanatos, G2288) is used for physical death (Rom 5:12), spiritual death (Rom 8:6), and the second death (Rev 20:14) — observable lexical fact E048,E047,E051 Neutral etc7-03
N014 When ruach/breath departs, the entire person ceases conscious existence -- the creation formula reversed means the living being ceases E012,E015,E007,E003 Cond. etc7-04
N015 Resurrection, not death, is the moment when believers are with the Lord -- every text that specifies timing places being with the Lord after resurrection E080,E030,E039,E115 Cond. etc7-04
N016 The death-as-sleep metaphor, used by God, Jesus, and 7+ biblical authors, is a cross-testamental description of death as a state without awareness E038,E071,E117,E120,E121 Neutral etc7-04
N017 Sheol/hades is characterized by unconsciousness, silence, darkness, and cessation -- every sheol characterization text describes cessation of activity and awareness E016,E013,E014,E070 Cond. etc7-04
N018 Human consciousness does not survive death by its own nature -- God alone has immortality, the soul can die, and the soul can be destroyed E020,E036,E029 Cond. etc7-04
N019 Death is the dissolution of the whole living being (reversal of creation), not the liberation of a conscious soul E012,E007,E003,E011 Cond. etc7-04 etc7-16
N020 Sheol and hades are semantically equivalent E136,E137,E138,E139 Neutral etc7-05
N021 Hades is temporary -- it delivers up the dead, then is destroyed E051 Neutral etc7-05 etc7-09
N022 Gehenna and sheol/hades are distinct concepts E141,E036,N020 Neutral etc7-05
N023 Hades and the lake of fire are distinct (one is cast into the other) E051 Neutral etc7-05
N024 Tartaroo applies only to angels, not humans E145 Neutral etc7-05
N025 The KJV translation of four distinct words as hell obscures their distinct semantic ranges E140,E143,E145,N020,N022,N023 Neutral etc7-05
N026 No gehenna passage uses torment vocabulary for human beings E144,E169 Neutral etc7-05 etc7-16, etc7-20
N027 OT background of gehenna involves slaughter and corpse disposal E159,E160,E161,E133 Neutral etc7-05
N028 Both righteous and wicked go to sheol E141,E142,E130 Neutral etc7-05
N029 Destruction vocabulary and torment vocabulary are distinct word families with non-overlapping semantic ranges E215,E216 Neutral etc7-06 etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-16
N030 Every biblical simile for the fate of the wicked depicts a substance that ceases to exist; no simile depicts something continuing to exist in a ruined state E171,E084,E193,E206,E178,E208 Cond. etc7-06 etc7-11
N031 The perish-vs-life contrast appears across four authors and both testaments E078,E179,E049,E181,E177 Neutral etc7-06 etc7-08
N032 The LXX translators chose Greek destruction/cessation words for Hebrew destruction terms, not torment or ongoing-suffering words E211,E212,E213,E214 Neutral etc7-06
N033 Olam does not inherently mean endless; its duration is determined by context and subject E222,E223,E224,E225,E226,E227,E228,E229,E230,E231,E232,E233,E234,E235,E236,E237,E238 Cond. etc7-07
N034 Backward-looking uses of olam (of old) prove the word means indefinite rather than infinite duration E230,E240 Neutral etc7-07
N035 Olam promises can be conditional and revocable E228,E229 Cond. etc7-07
N036 LXX translators understood olam as age-related (aion/aionios), not strictly eternal E241,E242 Neutral etc7-07
N037 OT forever fire/smoke language describes completed, irreversible judgments E231,E232,E134,E182 Cond. etc7-07 etc7-11, etc7-15
N038 Aidios and aionios are not synonymous; different etymologies (aion vs aei), different distributions, different usage by Jude in adjacent verses E249,E251,E247 Neutral etc7-08
N039 The Hebrews uses of aionios describe permanent results of completed acts, not ongoing processes E221,E264 Neutral etc7-08 etc7-11
N042 The absence of a parabole label at Luke 16:19 is uninformative about genre, given Luke's labeling pattern E272,E273,E274,E275 Neutral etc7-09
N043 The passage's self-identified teaching point is about hearing Moses and the prophets, not afterlife geography E282,E283 Neutral etc7-09
N044 Abraham's bosom as a post-mortem location is unique to Luke 16:22-23 and lacks corroboration elsewhere in Scripture E278 Neutral etc7-09
N045 Luke 16 uses different torment vocabulary (basanos/odunao) from eschatological torment passages (basanizo/basanismos) E279,E280,E129 Neutral etc7-09
N046 The psychas under the altar spatially correspond to the blood poured at the base of the OT altar E064,E299 Neutral etc7-10
N047 The sphazō vocabulary chain places the Lamb and the martyrs in the same sacrificial framework E064,E304,E305 Neutral etc7-10
N048 The anapauō lexical link connects the martyrs' rest with the condition of the blessed dead E293,E118 Neutral etc7-10
N049 Rev 20:4-5 identifies the same group as Rev 6:9 and locates their living at the first resurrection E064,E119,E296 Neutral etc7-10
N050 The smoke-ascending-forever formula describes permanent memorial of completed destruction, not an ongoing process E267,E135,E231,E307,E309 Cond. etc7-11
N051 Basanismos is not inherently eternal — it can describe time-limited events E308,E311 Neutral etc7-11
N052 Rest not day and night (anapausis) characterizes uninterrupted activity quality, not guaranteed eternal duration E310 Neutral etc7-11
N053 Revelation communicates through signs and symbols, not literal plain-language description E294 Neutral etc7-11
N054 Revelation uses different vocabulary for different subjects at the lake of fire: humans receive devoured/second death; non-human/symbolic entities receive tormented E101,E103,E051,E100 Neutral etc7-11 etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-14, etc7-15, etc7-16
N055 Basanizo (G928) in judgment contexts appears exclusively in Revelation's apocalyptic framework or in demonic speech — never in epistles, Gospel didactic sections, or OT for human eschatological fate E103,E327,E328,E329,E311,E330 Neutral etc7-12 etc7-15, etc7-16, etc7-21
N056 The torment formula of Rev 20:10 (basanisthesontai eis tous aionas ton aionon) is applied only to non-human/symbolic entities, never to any human being E103,E333 Neutral etc7-12 etc7-13, etc7-14
N057 The casting of death and hades into the lake (Rev 20:14) fulfills the OT/NT death-of-death chain: death swallowed up (Isa 25:8), last enemy destroyed (1 Cor 15:26), death abolished (2 Tim 1:10) E051,E079,E086 Neutral etc7-13
N058 The X=Y identification formula in Rev 20:14 belongs to the same self-interpreting pattern used throughout Revelation (Rev 1:20, 5:8, 17:9, 17:15, 17:18) -- same grammatical construction (subject + estin/eisin + predicate nominative) E051,E334,E335 Neutral etc7-13 etc7-15
N059 Book of life = exempt from second death; not in book = subject to second death -- Rev 2:11 (overcomer not hurt by second death), Rev 3:5 (overcomer not blotted from book), Rev 20:15 (not in book = cast into lake = second death) E098,E162 Neutral etc7-13
N060 The 8 major judgment passages collectively use destruction/death vocabulary for human wicked; none uses basanizo for humans E101,E051,E163,E103,E133,E337,E132,E185,E188,E338 Neutral etc7-14 etc7-15, etc7-21
N061 Dera'on (H1860) links Dan 12:2 and Isa 66:24; in Isa 66:24, the objects of dera'on are peger (corpses) -- only 2 OT uses, both judgment contexts E133,E166 Neutral etc7-14
N062 Rom 2:7 states immortality must be sought (present active participle zetousin); Rom 2:12 states sinners perish (apollymi) -- within the same passage E338,E031 Neutral etc7-14
N063 The vocabulary overlap (katapino G2666, thnetos G2349) between 2 Cor 5:4 and 1 Cor 15:54 identifies both passages as referring to the same resurrection event E061,E030,E346 Neutral etc7-19
N064 Paul's stated preference is transformation without death (ependysasthai), not death as a positive transition — the three-part structure of 2 Cor 5:4 (NOT X / BUT Y / PURPOSE Z) is syntactically plain E061 Neutral etc7-19
N065 The groaning in 2 Cor 5:2,4 (stenazomen) is for bodily redemption, since the identical form in Rom 8:23 groans for the redemption of our body E347,E061 Neutral etc7-19
N066 katakaio (G2618) means burn completely/consume in all 12 NT occurrences; no occurrence describes ongoing burning without consumption E360,E361,E374 Neutral etc7-21
N067 All 5 OT charaq (H2786) occurrences express hostile rage, not pain E369,E370,E371,E372,E377 Neutral etc7-21
N068 brygmos (G1030) maps to charaq (H2786) via brycho (G1031) in the LXX -- translation equivalents in every co-occurrence E373,E369,E370,E371,E372,E377 Neutral etc7-21
N069 The three OT furnace traditions (attuwn, kuwr, tannuwr) all describe furnaces that destroy their contents E376,E084 Neutral etc7-21
N070 Matthew's judgment parables use zero basanizo-family words for human eschatological subjects E362,E363,E364,E365,E366,E367 Neutral etc7-21
N071 The outer-darkness image appears only in feast/banquet contexts E364,E365,E366 Neutral etc7-21
N072 A literal furnace of fire (producing light) contradicts literal outer darkness (absence of light) in the same author E362,E363,E364,E365,E366 Neutral etc7-21
N073 Luke 13:28 identifies the trigger of gnashing as seeing exclusion from the kingdom E368 Neutral etc7-21
N074 Rev 20:9 uses katesthio (devour) for humans while Rev 20:10 uses basanizo (torment) for devil/beast/false prophet -- different verbs for different subjects in consecutive verses E101,E103 Neutral etc7-21 etc7-15, etc7-22
N075 No biblical text defines death as separation of soul from body. Death is defined as return to dust, reversal of creation, cessation of thought, unconsciousness. James 2:26 uses pneuma, not psyche. Cond. etc7-16
N076 Basanizo (G928) / basanismos (G929) never co-occurs with aionios (G166) anywhere in the NT. The phrase 'eternal torment' combines two words the biblical text never combines. Neutral etc7-16
N077 The phrase 'immortal soul' never appears in Scripture. Athanasia (G110) is applied to God (1 Tim 6:16) and to what mortals put on at resurrection (1 Cor 15:53-54), never to the human soul as a present possession. Cond. etc7-16
N078 God's self-revealed character places mercy as predominant over judgment: 6 mercy-attributes vs 2 justice-attributes in Exo 34:6-7, mercy to thousands vs judgment to 3rd/4th generation Neutral etc7-17
N079 Biblical punishment is proportional to deeds - stated in 11+ passages across 9 authors, both testaments Neutral etc7-17
N080 The stated penalty for sin is named death (thanatos/muth), not torment (basanizo) Cond. etc7-17
N081 God's anger is explicitly described as temporary: not for ever (Psa 103:9, Isa 57:16, Mic 7:18) using le-olam/la-netsach/la-ad Cond. etc7-17
N082 Every recorded divine judgment in Scripture results in death/destruction - none results in ongoing torment Neutral etc7-17
N083 God does not take pleasure in executing the death penalty on the wicked - stated three times, once at oath level Neutral etc7-17
N084 Every biblical vengeance passage with a described outcome results in death/destruction/desolation — none results in ongoing conscious torment Cond. etc7-22
N085 The tense shift from present (ekdikeis, Rev 6:10) to aorist (exedikesen, Rev 19:2) marks narrative resolution — the avenging is completed Neutral etc7-22
N086 Rev 19:2 echoes Deut 32:43 with direct vocabulary correspondence (naqam/ekdikeo, dam/haima, avadim/douloi) Neutral etc7-22
N087 In OT judgment passages, affliction/pain vocabulary consistently precedes destruction vocabulary — the sequence is never reversed Cond. etc7-22
N088 2 Thess 1:8-9 explicitly links divine vengeance (ekdikesis) to destruction (olethros), not torment (basanizo) Cond. etc7-22
N089 In Daniel 7, judgment (v.9-10 throne + books) precedes destruction (v.11 beast given to burning flame); Rev 20 presents the same events in different literary order (recapitulation: result v.9 then judicial detail v.11-13) Neutral etc7-13
N090 Biblical ascending language consistently uses physical height to communicate magnitude: smoke ascending to heaven = total destruction (Josh 8:20, Judg 20:40), sin reaching heaven = maximum accumulated magnitude (Rev 18:5, Gen 18:20), rage reaching heaven = extreme severity (2 Chr 28:9). Forever applied to ascending smoke is the temporal equivalent — maximum magnitude of destruction. Neutral etc7-11

Inferences (I)

ID Claim Type Position First Appeared Also In
I001 Man is a holistic unity — body + breath = living soul with no separable immortal component I-A Cond. etc7-01
I009 The Bible teaches conditional immortality: humans are mortal, immortality is through Christ at the resurrection, those who reject Christ ultimately cease to exist I-A Cond. etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-15
I013 Death means cessation of existence — reversal of creation, dissolution of the person I-A Cond. etc7-03
I018 True separation from God equals cessation of existence, because God sustains all life I-A Cond. etc7-03
I019 Death dissolves the nephesh because removing breath from dust reverses the creation formula I-A Cond. etc7-03 etc7-04
I020 The dead are unconscious between death and resurrection I-A Cond. etc7-03 etc7-04, etc7-09, etc7-19
I021 The soul is not immortal because it can die and be destroyed I-A Cond. etc7-03 etc7-04
I030 The life vs. gehenna contrast means eternal life vs. eternal death/destruction I-A Cond. etc7-05
I031 Sheol's pairing with Abaddon (destruction) indicates sheol is associated with destruction rather than torment I-A Cond. etc7-05
I032 Eternal fire language in the Bible describes the finality of destruction, not the duration of burning I-A Cond. etc7-05 etc7-11
I034 Destruction vocabulary describes actual cessation of existence, not metaphorical spiritual ruin while the subject continues to exist I-A Cond. etc7-06 etc7-11
I035 The aionios + result-noun pattern (eternal redemption, eternal judgment, eternal salvation) shows everlasting destruction means destruction whose result is permanent, not an ongoing process of destroying I-A Cond. etc7-06 etc7-08
I036 The lost sense of apollymi in Luke 15 (recoverable loss) does not determine the meaning of apollymi in judgment contexts (irreversible destruction) because context, not etymology, governs word meaning I-A Cond. etc7-06
I037 Destruction vocabulary (not torment vocabulary) is the Bible's primary word family for describing the fate of the wicked, outnumbering torment references approximately 30:1 I-A Cond. etc7-06 etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-15, etc7-21
I040 Olam/aionios functions as age-lasting with duration determined by subject; everlasting punishment = permanent result, not endless process I-A Cond. etc7-07 etc7-08
I043 The existence of aidios (G126) as a separate truly eternal word shows aionios (G166) does not inherently mean eternal I-A Cond. etc7-07 etc7-08
I044 The nature-of-subject principle: olam applied to an eternal subject = genuinely eternal; olam applied to a mortal subject = limited by mortality I-A Cond. etc7-07 etc7-08
I045 The le-olam va-ed intensified form implies olam alone is not maximal I-A Neutral etc7-07
I046 Aionios does not inherently mean eternal/endless in all NT uses I-A Cond. etc7-08
I047 Eternal punishment (Matt 25:46) means permanent result of a completed punitive act, not ongoing conscious torment I-A Cond. etc7-08 etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-21
I048 The perish-vs-life and death-vs-life contrasts establish that the alternative to eternal life is cessation, not alternative eternal existence I-A Cond. etc7-08
I058 Paul's logic in 1 Cor 15:18 requires the dead NOT to be in conscious bliss; this rules out a literal reading of Luke 16 I-A Cond. etc7-09
I059 Since David is dead and NOT ascended (Acts 2:29,34), Luke 16's depiction of the righteous dead in Abraham's bosom is inconsistent with Luke's own didactic teaching I-A Cond. etc7-09
I060 Rev 6:9-11 uses the blood-crying-from-the-ground motif (Gen 4:10) as forensic personification, not evidence of conscious survival I-A Cond. etc7-10
I061 The martyrs' rest (anapauō) in Rev 6:11 indicates unconscious sleep between death and resurrection I-A Cond. etc7-10
I064 The didactic death-state passages (Ecc 9:5; Ps 146:4; Ps 115:17) govern interpretation of Rev 6:9-11 by SIS clarity criteria (didactic > apocalyptic) I-A Cond. etc7-10
I067 The Bible teaches that the final fate of the wicked is permanent destruction/cessation I-A Cond. etc7-11 etc7-13, etc7-14
I068 The fire-and-brimstone paradigm's temporal results (ashes) govern its eschatological application I-A Cond. etc7-11 etc7-13
I070 Rev 20:10's torment formula describes the fate of non-human/symbolic entities, not the fate of human beings I-A Cond. etc7-12 etc7-15, etc7-21
I071 Basanizo is a word family specific to supernatural/apocalyptic contexts for judgment, not a term for human eschatological fate I-A Cond. etc7-12
I074 The proportionality principle (according to deeds) contradicts ECT because infinite punishment for finite sin is disproportionate I-A Cond. etc7-14 etc7-20
I076 The anthropological data (humans lack inherent immortality) structurally precludes eternal conscious torment I-A Cond. etc7-14 etc7-15
I077 Paul places being with the Lord exclusively at the parousia/resurrection, not at death I-A Cond. etc7-19
I080 The dead are unconscious, therefore 2 Cor 5:8 describes the subjective experience of the dead person for whom the next moment of consciousness after death is the resurrection I-A Cond. etc7-19
I081 God's destruction of both soul and body in gehenna results in the complete cessation of the wicked's existence I-A Cond. etc7-20
I082 Same-discourse word pair psyche+apollymi in Matt 10:39 (lose one's life) governs the meaning of psyche+apollymi in Matt 10:28 (destroy soul and body) I-A Cond. etc7-20
I083 Matthew's judgment-apollymi pattern (10:28, 21:41, 22:7) shows apollymi means actual destruction when God or an authority figure acts on the wicked I-A Cond. etc7-20
I085 The judgment parables teach that the wicked are destroyed/consumed (cease to exist) at the final judgment I-A Cond. etc7-21
I086 The gnashing formula describes a momentary judgment-event response (grief + rage), not an ongoing state I-A Neutral etc7-21
I087 The outer darkness describes exclusion from the kingdom feast without specifying subsequent fate I-A Neutral etc7-21
I090 Both furnace of fire and outer darkness are figurative representations of eschatological judgment -- fire representing destruction/consumption, darkness representing exclusion from God's light I-A Neutral etc7-21
I092 The lake of fire functions as an instrument of destruction (second death), not ongoing preservation in torment I-A Cond. etc7-15
I103 The biblical data on human nature, immortality, death-state, and fate of the wicked collectively establish conditional immortality as the scriptural framework. I-A Cond. etc7-16
I105 Infinite conscious torment for finite sin is inconsistent with the biblical principle of proportional justice I-A Cond. etc7-17
I106 Destruction as the final fate is consistent with God's self-revealed character of mercy, temporary anger, and the stated penalty of death I-A Cond. etc7-17
I107 The no more death promise (Rev 21:4) is incompatible with ECT - if wicked tormented eternally, death/sorrow/pain have not passed away I-A Cond. etc7-17
I108 Christ's penalty on the cross was death, not eternal torment; this reveals the nature of the penalty for sin I-A Cond. etc7-17
I109 ECT reverses the biblical temporal asymmetry between wrath and mercy - making wrath eternal and mercy finite I-A Cond. etc7-17
I114 Biblical vengeance is consistently an act that completes, producing death/destruction/cessation as the final state — the final judgment follows this pattern I-A Cond. etc7-22
I115 The OT process-to-outcome pattern (torment as process, destruction as outcome) applies to eschatological judgment I-A Cond. etc7-22
I116 Smoke ascending forever language describes irreversible judgment whose result is permanent, not ongoing burning I-A Cond. etc7-22
I117 Proportional judgment (many/few stripes, according to works) is incompatible with infinite equal torment for all I-A Cond. etc7-22
I118 Because God explicitly does not retain anger forever, a never-ending punishment contradicts these explicit statements I-A Cond. etc7-22
I120 The cry for vengeance in Rev 6:10 is answered by permanent cessation of the wicked, based on the Deut 32 template and the aorist completion in Rev 19:2 I-A Cond. etc7-22
I004 2 Cor 5:8 and Phil 1:23 teach a conscious intermediate state between death and resurrection I-B ECT-direction etc7-01 etc7-04, etc7-19
I011 Perish (apollymi) in John 3:16 and 1 Cor 15:18 means cessation of existence, not ongoing conscious ruin I-B Cond. etc7-02
I012 Without resurrection, the dead have no existence — they have perished entirely I-B Cond. etc7-02
I015 The second death is eternal conscious torment I-B ECT etc7-03
I016 Dead in trespasses (Eph 2:1) redefines death as separation from God — spiritual death is the primary meaning I-B ECT etc7-03
I017 The spiritual death passages show that death can mean something other than cessation — it can mean a state of ongoing existence in a negative condition I-B ECT-direction etc7-03
I022 The dead are in a conscious intermediate state between death and resurrection I-B ECT-direction etc7-04 etc7-19
I026 Sheol/hades is a state of conscious existence for the dead I-B ECT-direction etc7-05
I027 Gehenna is a place of eternal conscious torment for human beings I-B ECT-direction etc7-05
I033 Everlasting punishment (Matt 25:46) means eternal process of punishing, not permanent result I-B ECT-direction etc7-05 etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-13, etc7-14, etc7-20, etc7-21
I038 The wicked experience eternal conscious torment -- destruction vocabulary is metaphorical for spiritual ruin, not literal cessation I-B ECT etc7-06 etc7-08, etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-14, etc7-20, etc7-21
I039 Everlasting destruction (2 Thess 1:9) means ongoing, never-ending process of being destroyed I-B ECT etc7-06 etc7-08, etc7-15
I041 Olam inherently means eternal when used in eschatological contexts, regardless of non-eschatological usage I-B ECT-direction etc7-07 etc7-08
I042 Dan 12:2 symmetry requires identical duration for both outcomes (chayyei olam = deraon olam in duration) I-B ECT-direction etc7-07 etc7-08, etc7-14, etc7-15
I049 Aionios inherently means eternal/endless in all its NT occurrences I-B ECT etc7-08
I050 Matt 25:46 symmetry requires identical duration for punishment and life I-B ECT etc7-08 etc7-11, etc7-14, etc7-15
I051 Ages of ages in Rev 14:11/19:3/20:10 describes literal endless torment of human wicked I-B ECT etc7-08 etc7-11, etc7-12
I054 Luke 16:19-31 is a parable, not a literal account I-B Neutral etc7-09
I065 Rev 14:9-11 describes eternal conscious torment of human wicked I-B ECT etc7-11 etc7-12, etc7-13, etc7-15
I069 Since the devil, beast, false prophet, and humans all end up in the same lake of fire, they all experience the same outcome (eternal conscious torment) I-B ECT etc7-12 etc7-13, etc7-14, etc7-15, etc7-21
I073 The for ever and ever formula always means genuinely eternal regardless of subject I-B ECT etc7-12
I078 The absent from the body / present with the Lord in 2 Cor 5:8 refers to the resurrection, not to a conscious intermediate state I-B Cond. etc7-19
I113 The redeemed's affirmation of God's justice (Rev 15:3-4; 16:5-7; 19:1-2) confirms God's actual judgment method is recognized as just - but both models claim this I-B Neutral etc7-17
I119 Eternal conscious torment is the fate of all the wicked, including those described as devoured in Rev 20:9 I-B ECT-direction etc7-22
I003 Under the sun in Ecclesiastes limits those death-state statements to the earthly perspective only, not the heavenly reality I-C ECT-direction etc7-01 etc7-04
I005 Man has a tripartite nature (body, soul, spirit as three ontologically distinct components) I-C Neutral etc7-01
I006 Man has a bipartite nature (material body + immaterial soul/spirit that survives death) I-C ECT-direction etc7-01
I007 The spirit (ruach) that returns to God at death (Ecc 12:7) is a conscious personality that goes to heaven I-C ECT-direction etc7-01
I008 God's exclusive possession of immortality (1 Tim 6:16) refers only to underived, self-existent immortality; humans possess a derived form I-C ECT-direction etc7-01 etc7-02
I010 Thnetos (mortal) applies only to the body; the soul is exempt from mortality I-C ECT-direction etc7-02
I028 Revelation 20:10 teaches that all the wicked will be tormented forever I-C ECT-direction etc7-05 etc7-11, etc7-12, etc7-21
I055 The naming of Lazarus proves the passage is a literal historical account I-C ECT-direction etc7-09
I056 The physical details (tongue, water, flame, gulf) describe literal post-mortem conditions I-C ECT-direction etc7-09
I062 Rev 6:9-11 teaches dead martyrs are consciously present in heaven I-C ECT-direction etc7-10 etc7-15, etc7-19
I063 The white robes given to the souls indicate conscious reception of a reward in heaven prior to the resurrection I-C ECT-direction etc7-10
I066 Apocalyptic torment language in Revelation should be read as literal description of human fate I-C ECT etc7-11 etc7-12
I072 The beast represents a system of human adherents; therefore the torment of the symbolic beast transfers to the humans within that system I-C ECT etc7-12
I075 The sorer punishment (Heb 10:29) means eternal conscious torment worse than physical death I-C ECT etc7-14
I084 The fear hierarchy in Matt 10:28 requires the threat to be worse than physical death, which only eternal conscious torment (not cessation) satisfies I-C ECT etc7-20
I091 Mark 9:43-48 teaches ongoing conscious suffering in gehenna — the undying worm and unquenchable fire act continuously on living subjects I-C ECT etc7-15
I094 The historical progression from apostolic conditionalism to patristic ECT tracks the incorporation of Platonic philosophy into Christian theology, consistent with Paul's warning against philosophy (Col 2:8). I-C Cond. etc7-16
I095 The intertestamental literature documents a spectrum from denial of soul immortality (Sirach) through conditional immortality (Wisdom of Solomon) to full ECT (4 Maccabees), showing the progressive Hellenization of Jewish eschatology. I-C Neutral etc7-16
I096 The Pharisees were the conduit through which Hellenistic soul concepts entered Jewish mainstream theology. I-C Neutral etc7-16
I097 The Alexandrian school (Clement, Origen) systematically merged Platonic philosophy with Christianity, exactly as Paul warned against in Col 2:8. I-C Cond. etc7-16
I098 Augustine's Neoplatonic background shaped the ECT synthesis that became Western orthodoxy. I-C Cond. etc7-16
I099 The Fifth Lateran Council (1513) was the first council to dogmatize the immortality of the individual soul -- 1,483 years after the apostolic period. I-C Neutral etc7-16
I100 Translation conflation (Vulgate: infernus for sheol/hades/gehenna/tartaroo; KJV: hell for all four) collapsed four distinct biblical concepts into a single hell concept, facilitating the ECT reading. I-C Neutral etc7-16
I104 The redefinition of death from cessation/return to dust to separation of soul from body occurred during the patristic period under Platonic influence. I-C Neutral etc7-16
I110 The Anselmian argument (sin against infinite God = infinite punishment) is not found in Scripture I-C Neutral etc7-17
I112 God's statements about not retaining anger for ever apply only to covenant people, not to final fate of wicked I-C ECT-direction etc7-17
I002 Humans possess an immortal soul that survives death consciously I-D ECT etc7-01 etc7-02, etc7-03, etc7-04, etc7-13
I014 Death means ongoing conscious separation from God I-D ECT etc7-03 etc7-13
I023 The rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) teaches literal afterlife geography I-D ECT-direction etc7-04 etc7-09
I024 Revelation 6:9-11 proves the dead are conscious because the souls cry out I-D ECT-direction etc7-04
I025 The witch of Endor incident (1 Sam 28) proves the dead can communicate I-D ECT-direction etc7-04
I029 The four hell words designate a single unified concept of eternal torment I-D ECT etc7-05
I052 The wicked receive eternal conscious existence for the purpose of suffering I-D ECT etc7-08 etc7-11
I053 Basanizo/basanismos applies to the final fate of generic human wicked I-D ECT etc7-08 etc7-11
I057 Luke 16:19-31 proves conscious post-mortem suffering consistent with ECT I-D ECT-direction etc7-09 etc7-15
I079 Luke 23:43 proves the thief was consciously in paradise with Jesus on the day of crucifixion I-D ECT-direction etc7-19
I088 The wicked exist consciously in outer darkness forever I-D ECT etc7-21
I089 The furnace of fire preserves its contents in ongoing suffering rather than consuming them I-D ECT etc7-21
I093 Inherent soul immortality is a necessary foundation for ECT; this foundation is absent from Scripture I-D ECT etc7-15
I101 Innate soul immortality: the claim that all human souls are inherently immortal and indestructible. Requires overriding E-tier statements (God alone has immortality, soul dies, soul destroyed, tree of life barred). I-D ECT etc7-16
I102 Death means separation of soul from body: requires overriding Gen 3:19 (return to dust), Psa 146:4 (thoughts perish), Ecc 9:5 (dead know nothing). No text defines death this way. I-D ECT etc7-16
I111 God's holiness demands ECT as the necessary consequence of sin - requires overriding explicit penalty (death) with external concept I-D ECT-direction etc7-17