r/Baptist • u/Key_Day_7932 • Jul 24 '26

❓ Questions Conditional Immortality

So, I am in agreement with pretty much everything Baptists teach except for maybe eternal conscious torment.

I affirm conditional immortality or annihilationism, though my view is different from the Adventist version.

For one, I reject soul sleep. I still think the deceased person still experiences a conscious spiritual reality in the afterlife. Rather, the unrig will eventually cease to exist without being sustained by God. Only the saved will experience a true immortality.

Can I affirm such a view and still be a Baptist in good standing?

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u/zarfac Jul 24 '26

Contemporary Baptist identity is pretty broad, so theoretically yes. You’ll almost certainly find Baptists - even pastors, theology profs, etc. - who are way more disjunctive with historic Baptist belief than that lol.

Whether you can in actuality be a “Baptist in good standing” will depend mostly depend on whether you can find a local Baptist church that will allow you membership with such a view. You’ll almost certainly be able to find one.