Hell

Many Biblical Unitarians hold to conditionalism or annihilationism — the view that the unsaved dead, after resurrection and judgment, are destroyed rather than subjected to unending conscious torment. This position is consistent with the broader Biblical Unitarian emphasis on conditional immortality: since immortality is not a natural property of human beings but a gift of God, the unsaved do not receive this gift and therefore cannot experience eternal conscious suffering.

Biblical Unitarian reading of 'eternal fire' and 'eternal punishment' (Matthew 25:46) tends to emphasize the eternal consequences of the destruction rather than the duration of a conscious experience. The fire is eternal in its effects (permanent destruction), not eternal in its active burning. This hermeneutic aligns with the conditionalist reading of passages like Malachi 4:1-3 (the wicked will be 'ashes under the soles of your feet') and Psalm 37:10 ('in a little while the wicked will be no more').

A minority of Biblical Unitarians retain the traditional view of eternal conscious punishment, and the movement is not unified on this question. The dominant trend, however, is toward conditionalism, consistent with the broader tradition of conditional immortality that has historically accompanied non-Trinitarian and anti-Augustinian theology.