16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
–Colossians 2:16-17 (KJV)–
10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: 11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
–Revelation 14:10-11 (KJV)–
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MARTIN LUTHER
These words clearly say that the punishment of the wicked is eternal,
just as the life of the righteous is eternal.
–Sermon on Matthew 25–
Christ will come again to judge both the living and the dead,
to give eternal life to the godly and eternal punishment to the ungodly.
—The Smalcald Articles (1537)–
JOHN CALVIN
The wicked shall be raised to dishonor,
that they may be perpetually tormented with the devil and his angels.
—Institutes of the Christian Religion (Book III, ch. 25)–
Christ clearly shows that the punishment prepared for the reprobate is eternal,
for the same word is used to describe the life of the blessed.
–Commentary on Matthew 25:46–
They shall be driven away into everlasting destruction,
where they shall feel the wrath of God without end.
–(Institutes, Book III, ch. 24)–
Their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched;
by these expressions Christ means a punishment which shall never end.
–(Institutes, Book II, ch. 12)–
JOHN KNOX
The wicked shall be cast into everlasting fire,
where they shall be tormented day and night forever.
—Scots Confession (1560), Chapter 25–
THOMAS CRANMER (ENGLISH REFORMER)
The ungodly shall go into everlasting fire,
and the godly into everlasting life.
—A Defence of the True and Catholic Doctrine of the Sacrament (1550)–
JOHN JEWEL (ENGLISH REFORMER)
We believe that Christ shall come again to judge both quick and dead;
the godly to possess the kingdom of heaven, the wicked to suffer eternal fire.
—Apology of the Church of England (1562)–
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Dr. John R. Rice, False Doctrines Answered (Sword, 1970), ch. 4.
—. Hell: What the Bible Says About It (Sword, 1945), pp. 12-13.
Dr. Walter Martin, The Kingdom of the Cults (Bethany House, 2003), App. B.
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Dr. Rice represented the traditional independent Baptist fundamentalism of Bob Jones University, the type that Billy Graham came out of in 1936. Dr. Martin represented the state of conservative evangelicalism from the 80s to the early 2000s. Their Tables of Contents are agreed in labeling the following cults by name:
A RICE-MARTIN LIST OF CULTS
CALLED OUT BY NAME
THE JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES
THE MORMONS
(LATTER-DAY SAINTS)
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
SPIRITISM
(TALKING WITH GHOSTS)
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
(HERBERT ARMSTRONG)
THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

