What is conditional immortality?

Conditional immortality is the view that everlasting life is God’s gift in Christ rather than an inherent property every person must possess. Many conditionalists connect final punishment with irreversible destruction rather than endless conscious suffering. Its advocates appeal to biblical language of death and destruction; critics ask whether it adequately accounts for passages describing enduring punishment and torment. Rethinking Hell is an attributed evangelical source for that perspective, not a neutral arbiter and not an endorsement by this ministry. The interpretation should be assessed across whole passages, including Matthew 25 and Revelation 20, without pretending a single word resolves every question.