Repent or Perish: With a Special Reference to the Conservative Attack on Hell (John Gerstner (1914-1996)) [Paperback]

John H. Gerstner (Author)

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• Paperback: 218 pages
• Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria Pubns (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 187761114X
• ISBN-13: 978-1877611148
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,486,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Title somewhat misleading, December 31, 2009

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This review is from: Repent or Perish: With a Special Reference to the Conservative Attack on Hell (John Gerstner (1914-1996)) (Paperback)

This book starts out well in addressing what its title suggests, namely the crucial topic repent or perish. The book also strongly addresses that topic in the final few small chapters. For the beginning section and for the end section, this book is recommended reading. However, the large middle section of the book deals with the topic of whether hell is eternal or conditional, and to some extent whether people are annihilated rather than going to hell. This middle section, which mostly confronts the views of Dr. Fudge, could have been well covered in a brief chapter, but this book devotes most of its space here. And the writing in this section is repetitious. The book is worth reading; just be prepared for an over-written large middle section.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars All about Fudge, March 12, 2009

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This review is from: Repent or Perish: With a Special Reference to the Conservative Attack on Hell (John Gerstner (1914-1996)) (Paperback)

This book argues for a traditional view of hell as an eternal place of conscious torment. Unfortunately, instead of making positive arguments in his own favor, almost the entire book is an attack, vicious in places, cutting down another Christian writer, named Edward Fudge. Fudge has written The Fire that Consumes
and is an advocate for Conditional Immortality. Fudge believes that the only way to have eternal life is to receive it as a gift from God. Sinners in hell do not receive eternal life, so eventually after paying for their sins, they perish and cease to exist.

Gerstner only makes his own point in a roundabout way after critiquing others. Incredibly, he goes so far as to accuse Fudge of not being a Christian at all and being doomed to hell himself. In the Hebrew scriptures the word for accuser is `satan'. We as Christians should have no part of that behavior.

If you are interested in this topic, I would recommend Fudge's book for one view and Hell on Trial: The Case for Eternal Punishment by Robert Peterson for the Traditional viewpoint.

5 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even more passionate than Shedd's Endless Punishment., April 19, 2005

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This review is from: Repent or Perish: With a Special Reference to the Conservative Attack on Hell (John Gerstner (1914-1996)) (Paperback)

"Upright man was promised and warned. Aholy, just, and perfect God would promise and warn. Eternal life -- if obedient. Instant death -- the moment of disobedience. (Gen 3:5; Ecc 7:29)When man sinned, he died spiritually and was rejected from communion with God his maker and friend. (Gen 3; Rom 5:12)" (Page 213)

"This is the irony. The people who admit that hell is just do not go there. The people who do not admit it is just (because they are liars) are the ones who go there. This is the reason heaven rejoices in, rather than weeps over, hell. Heaven sees that this is where God punishes those who deserve to be punished in exactly the degree they deserve, eternally.
In its own way, hell is just like heaven. Heaven is the place where virtue, the infinite, perfect, righteousness of the SOn of God, is rewarded to those who by Christ deserve it and in the proper degree. (page 201)

[Annihilationists are] actually destroying God's atonement just as he has been destroying God's hell. Indeed as he has been destroying hell he has been destroying heaven, too... [Jesus Christ] not only suffered in His body to the point of death, but in His human soul He endured the infinite wrath of God... He was delivered up for our [infinite] offenses and delivered [raised from them] because of justification, our justification having been accomplished and His own as well (who had to be justified of the guilt He vicariously assumed). Had He been destroyed He would not have been justified; nor would His people, for whom He would have died in vain. (160- 161)