Actor and evangelist Kirk Cameron’s recent revelation that he holds a conditionalist/annihilationist view on hell has set off quite a debate online, with believers and Christian leaders weighing in on why they agree or disagree with Cameron. Apologist Wesley Huff disagrees with Cameron’s view but has urged people to engage with it thoughtfully and not from a place of ignorance.
“With @KirkCameron announcing his position on conditionalism I’m seeing a lot of people attempting to critique it. I hold to ECT [eternal conscious torment],” said Huff in an X post on Monday, Dec. 8, “but I do understand the topic of conditional immortality and I have yet to see anyone actually give a rebuttal that shows me they’ve interacted with the arguments and biblical reasoning from the other side.”
With @KirkCameron announcing his position on conditionalism I’m seeing a lot of people attempting to critique it. I hold to ECT, but I do understand the topic of conditional immortality and I have yet to see anyone actually give a rebuttal that shows me they’ve interacted with…
— Wes Huff (@WesleyLHuff) December 9, 2025
“To condemn conditionalism/annihilationism as heresy is to say that John Stott, Edward Fudge, F. F. Bruce, potentially even Athanasius of Alexandria, are all heretics,” Huff said. “This is, with all due respect, ridiculous. While the position might be unorthodox it is not heresy.”
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Kirk Cameron is an actor and outspoken evangelical Christian known for starring as a teen in the sitcom “Growing Pains” and as an adult in films such as “Fireproof” and “Left Behind.” He partnered with Living Waters founder and CEO Ray Comfort on the evangelism training series “The Way of the Master” and remains an active producer of faith-based media.
Annihilationism is the view that unbelievers will be annihilated after death instead of suffering torment in hell for eternity. In the Dec. 3 episode of “The Kirk Cameron Show,” Cameron and his son James discussed their views on the Christian doctrine of hell.
During their conversation, Cameron said that he used to believe in eternal conscious torment “because that’s just what I was taught by people that I love and trust. I’ve learned that there are other positions and a very robust argument can be made for conditionalism or annihilationism.”
Cameron said the annihilationist position was a “great relief” to him. “It fits the character of God in my understanding more than the conscious eternal torment position because it brings in the mercy of God together with the justice of God,” he said. Cameron noted that his current view is his “position as it stands today.”
Kirk Cameron’s annihilationist view on hell has set off a debate, and apologist Wesley Huff is urging people to engage with it thoughtfully.Click to Post“The beauty of this is that we’re always learning and growing, right?” he observed. “So I’m open to new light. If you guys have a position that you can share with me, I will gladly change my mind.”
