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        The blood of Christ is the basis of all blessing. The purpose of God determines human destiny.  It does not depend on our deserts. The plan or process of God during the eons or ages must be distinguished from His purpose,  which will not be fully accomplished until the eons are past.  Herein lies the difference between the teaching of the Scriptures and the accepted creeds of Christendom.  Sin and suffering, condemnation and death, endure for the eons, not "forever."
        The believer suffers in the current era because of sin, but be released in the resurrection at the presence of Christ.  The unbeliever will have affliction and anguish and death for his sins, in the judgment, but he also becomes reconciled to God at the consummation, through the blood of Christ's cross. (Col. 1:20).
        The terms  translated "forever" and "everlasting" and "never" are human perversions which could never have deceived us if they had been consistently rendered. They denote definite divisions of time called ages or eons.  All together they form a distinct portion of time called eonian times.  Much in our common  creeds is true if confined within the eons, but it is most malignant error when forced beyond the eons.
      This makes it possible for us to believe all the Word of God.  Those who cling to the creeds, and "eternal" torment must deny certain passages in Paul's epistles which clearly and unequivocally teach the salvation of all mankind (1Tim. 2:4; 4:9,10) and the reconciliation of the universe. (Co1. 1:20). They reject these portions of God's holy Word because they cannot be true if torment is eternal.  If, however, judgment is not eternal, but eonian, then we have the happy and exultant privilege of believing all the solemn threats of death and condemnation without the least reservation, and still accept God's grand goal to which all His labors lead.
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^{(1) Knoch, A. P. All In All. Canyon Country, CA.  Concordant Publishing Concern 1978}

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