The Lasting Bible

We believe many sincere Christians have been misled into believing a lie, that hell supposedly will never end for the wicked. This is a slander against Christ. He said “Behold, I am making all things new” (Rev 21:5). Does “all things” include hell? Jesus earlier had said that people will suffer proportionally—according to their works—some with “many” stripes and some with “few” (Lk 12:47-48). He also said the “soul” of the unbeliever can be destroyed (Mt 10:28). Nevertheless, many sincere Christians have embraced the false-Greek notion that the “soul” somehow is naturally “immortal”—can never be destroyed. Should Christians believe Plato or Jesus? Unbelievers will eventually, after suffering for sin, cease being.

THE LASTING BIBLE (TLB) first came out in 2018, but it has significantly been upgraded in 2022. You can get the new “upgrade” which has several advantages over a hand-held Bible. For example, you can search in the PDF version and find 661 uses of the word “lasting” in it. If you want to read Nahum, just search for “Nahum 1”, and it will come to Nahum 1. You can get the older (2018) version for free using the DOWNLOAD button below. However, you can get the new, 2022 version (recommended) for a mere $2 by going to the CR BOOKSTORE (top margin) and scrolling to the bottom. You should see it on the left side. It correctly translates two Bible words that have been mistranslated. Habakkuk 3:6, for example, says “He stood and shook the earth. He looked and made the nations tremble. The lasting (olam) mountains were crumbled. The age-old hills collapsed. His ways are lasting (olam).” The same Hebrew word is used both for long-time past and long-time future, and lasting is the English equivalent. To say God’s ways are lasting is no insult to God; in fact, it is honoring Him by correctly translating His Word. The ESV mistranslates both with “everlasting” (adding “ever” to lasting), but the “mountains” all had a “beginning”—do not go back “everlastingly” into the past. There are 439 olams in the OT. The NT equivalent is aionios, and it also means lasting. You can get the 2018 version free by clicking below. If you want the newer (2022) version, go to the CR BOOKSTORE and do what it says above.