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Who wants to go to hell?
April 21st, 201004:16 PM ETTo say that the traditional doctrine of hell presents a theological problem would be a striking understatement. I know that most Christians haven't begun to wrestle with the problem, not least because one rarely hears of hell these days. Gone are the days of fire and brimstone hellfire sermons. Today's progressive Christian tends to be a ... -
Do you go to hell for having the wrong theory of atonement?
April 11th, 201010:54 AM ETJust before Easter I began a critique concerning a particular understanding of atonement, that encapsulated in the legal metaphor of Christ paying our debt of sin, as well as the penal substitutionary metaphor of Christ dying in our place. It is not that I deny these are metaphors of scripture. Rather, I deny that they provide a theoretical account... -
Do people in hell continue to curse God?
February 05th, 201012:04 PM ETI have been engaging questions over the justice of the doctrine of hell as eternal conscious torment with the main suggestion being that this appears deeply morally problematic. MGT2 demurs. From his perspective, people choose to be in hell as they pile up sins eternally: Why does God allow people to continue to suffer in hell? And why does God pu... -
Is hell merely the sum total of our poor choices?
February 03rd, 201004:45 PM ETIn the last post I raised the question of the justice of hell. In short, what could justify punishing a person eternally? One of my readers, MGT2, offers the following reply to this question: I look at it this way. Two boy scouts, boy A and boy B, both standing before a bonfire with their troop leader. The boys are playing a game of chicken to see... -
When there is hell to pay: On the problem of eternal punishment
February 01st, 201005:26 PM ETIn the last post I turned to the most difficult of Christian doctrines, the doctrine of hell as eternal conscious torment. There certainly are passages that seem to suggest this doctrine. For instance, consider Jesus' chilling words in Matthew 25:41: "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire... -
Hell: Christianity's most burning issue
January 28th, 201010:25 PM ETIt could be a conspiracy of silence. More likely it is an egregious case of conformity to the wider culture. But whatever the reason, there can be little doubt that the topic of hell, once the mainstay of the fire and brimstone revivalist preacher, has been for some time conspicuously absent from the vast majority of pulpits. Corroboration for the... -
Is evil a disproof for Christianity?
August 20th, 200910:19 PM ETWhat would you say if an atheist asked you to tell him how best to shake your Christian faith? It would be a strange question wouldn't it? Rather like Caleb Bradham (founder of Pepsi) calling up Asa Griggs Candler (one time head of Coca-Cola) and asking for the secret formula to Coke. And yet, that is what I was asked by one of my readers, Converse...
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