Dear Fellow Believers,

The Greek word "aion" is the most important word to understand correctly, as it is this word, so commonly mistranslated in English Bibles as "forever" and "ever," that lends false divine support to the demonic teaching of eternal torment. 

In this broadcast of Grace Cafe from the summer of 1999, the six of us in the studio in Cleveland, Ohio prove, via Scriptural context, that the word "aion" (translated "eon" in careful and consistent versions such as the Concordant Literal New Testament) is a time word and can in no way, at any time, be construed as describing eternity.

The same goes with the adjective form of "aion," which is "aionion."

This broadcast is straightforward and simple and should convince anyone with an open mind that something is amiss in our common English versions.  

But this is only the first hour of a two-hour program. Next week you will hear us taking on the common objections to this truth, which are easily dispelled, yes, even by people opening Diet Pepsi cans on the air.

Thanks to Rodney Paris for once again providing us with a recording that, apart from its digitization, would still be stuck in audio cassette form in a storage unit in Canton, Ohio.  

I love listening to these shows every week. I can't tell you how satisfying it is to, twenty-five years later, still believe the same things, and to realize that I am just as passionate for the truth today as I was then. I thank my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the grace that has seen to this consistent heralding, that many might be freed from the bondage of orthodox Christian teaching, which is the most evil and destructive teaching on earth.

Thank you for your support of this work. It was a small group of believers who financed our five weeks of radio on a Christian radio station twenty-five years ago, and it is also a small group of believers that keeps this work going forward today. If your are one of that small group of believers, then I thank you from the bottom of my heart, from the bottom of the peninsula.

Yours in the grace of God,

—Martin