A Good Place To Start
The word apollumi, often rendered "perish" or "destroy," does not necessarily carry the connotation of annihilation that English readers naturally assume. W. E. Vine, Marvin Richardson Vincent, and Luke Kessler examine its actual usage across Scripture and wider Greek literature.
Deut 30:18; Isa 57:1; Mark 2:22; Rom 14:15; John 3:16; 1 Cor 8:11; Mark 8:35; Luke 19:10
“The idea is not extinction but ruin – loss, not of being, but of well being…” Verses where Apollumi is used... You [Israel] shall surely perish [apollumi–Septuagint] (Deut 30:18). The righteous perishes [apollumi–Septuagint], and no man...
Heb 1:11
In Heb 1:11,12, quoted from Psa 102, we read concerning the heavens and the earth as compared with the eternity of God, "they shall perish" (apolountai). Then in verse 12 "They will also be changed..." But the perishing is only preparatory...
2 Peter 3:7; 2 Thessalonians 1:9; 2Pet. 3:5; Luke 17:27-29; 1 Corinthians 10:6-11; Matt. 27:20; Luke 11:51; Romans 9:22
In the last 2 blogs we saw how death leads to life. We saw that death is the one appointed way for man to rise to a higher form of life through the loss of his old fallen life. We also saw that this death must be experienced both...