Repent or Perish

by John H. Gerstner

Book Overview

A BIOGRAPHY OF ONE OF AN IMPORTANT CHRISTIAN LEADER OF THE 20TH CENTURY This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 187761114X
• ISBN13: 9781877611148
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Soli Deo Gloria Ministries
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Title somewhat misleading

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.

Even more passionate than Shedd's Endless Punishment.

"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)