“What if the biblical foundations thought to support unending conscious torment are less secure than has been widely supposed? What about a growing doubt concerning the idea that God  who gave his Son to die for sinful human beings  will keep billions of those same people alive forever  only to torment them without end? Since publication of The Fire That Consumes in 1982  earnest believers throughout the world have voiced suspicions just such as these” (Edward William Fudge  The Fire That Consumes: A Biblical and Historical Study of the Doctrine of Final Punishment  Third Edition