Would God grant annihilation to a soul in hell if he asked for it?

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Existence is thrust into men without their consent after all. Why must anyone be burdened with it for eternity?
 
A round of similar posts came up several days back. Per Catholic teaching souls are not annihilated. I think there is some Mormon teaching along this line. That is not what we believe.
 
Annihilationists believe that the unsaved will cease to exist for all eternity. They argue that because eternal torment serves no remedial purpose. revelation 20 is perhaps the best resource to read.
I can’t think off hand what the Church teaches would be nice if someone else told us.
 
3 After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day.
And Job spake, and said,
Let the day perish wherein I was born,
and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Let that day be darkness;
let not God regard it from above,
neither let the light shine upon it.

Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it;
let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.
As for that night, let darkness seize upon it;
let it not be joined unto the days of the year,
let it not come into the number of the months.
Lo, let that night be solitary, let no joyful voice come therein.
Let them curse it that curse the day, who are ready to raise up their mourning.
Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark;
let it look for light, but have none; neither
let it see the dawning of the day:

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb,
nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Why died I not from the womb?
why did I not give up the ghost -
when I came out of the belly?

etc
 
No, annihilation is not even possible. We have immaterial, rational souls that, once created, will exist perpetually. They cannot be destroyed.
 
I doubt it. I ask God to allow me to die all the time, and he always says no.
 
To answer the question in the title, yes I think He would.
 
No, definitely not. He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
 
I’ve struggled to struggled to square this with Jesus’ words to Judas:
23 Jesus replied, “The one who has dipped his hand into the bowl with me will betray me. 24 The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
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There was a thread recently about whether Judas is in hell. Bracketing that arguement. I see this as a clear statement from Jesus that hell is worse than never being born.
 
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No, annihilation is not even possible. We have immaterial, rational souls that, once created, will exist perpetually. They cannot be destroyed.
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They can be destroyed if God decides it is to be so. God can do anything.
 
Constantinople II dogmatically settled all of these issues in 553 and the Catholic and eastern Orthodox answer is the same.
 
It is true, as far as we know (since we are not privy to what happens before a soul is put into a body), that no-one chooses to exist. However, one does not go to Hell merely for existing. One goes to Hell for the choices one makes during that existence.

By the way, per Church teaching, no one is eternally condemned for things (be they thoughts or acts) that are outside of their choice or control.
 
I don’t see why God would have any reason to listen to the souls in hell.
 
Because of the nature of Hell, the soul would never request annihilation. In Hell, a soul permanently chooses self apart from God.
 
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