Tag: Bible
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Just Ask Your Mom: A Fun and Important Podcast
I had a delightful conversation with Renee Sproles and Bonnie Blaylock on their Just Ask Your Mom podcast. They are “two Southern moms on the backside of raising kids. They have 4 kids, over 50 years of marriage, and 40 years of parenting mistakes, successes, and experience between them.” Renee and Bonnie asked questions every…
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The Eternal Purpose of God: An Interpretive Lens
When we consider ultimate questions, everyone has a starting place. Popular options include tradition, experience, preferences, and feelings. Others start with the Bible, but with all of the issues the Bible addresses, what should be considered foundational? The good editors at the Conditional Immortality Association of New Zealand graciously posted my latest paper as a…
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Rethinking Hell Podcast: Episode 1 with Edward William Fudge
The Rethinking Hell website kicked off a wonderful new podcast series by interviewing none other than Edward Fudge himself. If you want to meet the modern day grandfather of the Biblical understanding of hell, you will find no better introduction than this podcast. Chris Date hosts the episode with the professionalism of top podcasts. His…
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What Kind of God Would *Not* Condemn People to Eternal Torment?
Answers In Genesis (AIG) recently posted an article by Tim Challies entitled: “What Kind of God Would Condemn People to Eternal Torment?” His article is a bold defense of the traditional view of hell as a place of endless, conscious torment for nonbelievers. It is so bold as to claim that one cannot believe in…
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A Review Of “Hell – Why It’s Eternal”, by John G. Weldon
John Ankerberg posted an article by John G. Weldon entitled Hell – Why It’s Eternal and the Remarkable Ease of Entering Heaven. The article presents three arguments in favor of the traditional view that hell is a place of endless conscious punishment. Unfortunately, the three arguments articulated in the article have no Biblical foundation. None…
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A Christian’s Apology To Atheists
Dear Unbelieving Friend, I’m writing to apologize to you. My fellow Christians and I have misrepresented the Bible to you and shared a false message. In so doing, we have kept you from knowing the God who made you. Our most serious failure is our traditional doctrine that after death, people who don’t follow Christ…
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Is God So Holy That Sinners Deserve Endless Conscious Punishing?
Many of my fellow Christians accept the traditional view of hell because they believe that God’s sense of justice is so superior that we cannot understand why it is right for Him to punish unredeemed sinners for an endless eternity. Rightly, they agree with scriptures that affirm that God’s ways are not our ways. Isaiah…
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Why Challenge The Doctrine Of An Endless Hell?
You may wonder why it is important to discuss an unpleasant subject like Hell. Certainly there are more positive things we could talk about? I couldn’t agree more. Surely topics like Love, Heaven, Faith, Trust, and Goodness are much more pleasant. However, I think that the fact that many people believe that God is going…
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Rob Bell Asks Good Questions
In his latest book, Love Wins, Rob Bell asks some important questions about the nature of hell. Bell Asks: Does God punish people for thousands of years with infinite, eternal torment for things they did in their few finite years of life? Unfortunately, the response of well-meaning, orthodox Christians has not always been constructive. They…