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A jerk before Jesus becomes a jerk for Jesus
October 03rd, 201112:04 PM ETThe story behind "Machine Gun Preacher" is made for Hollywood. The film tells the (true) story of Sam Childers, a biker who becomes a Christian and then is deeply moved when he hears a missionary describe the plight of Sudanese orphans. So moved is he that he leaves his family, flies to Sudan, gets a gun, and begins defending those orphans. There ... -
Burned before you know it
April 01st, 201106:42 PM ETThere is a popular idea among Christians that there is some age of accountability before which point a person who dies without having made a cognitive confession of faith in Christ still gets to go to heaven. But after that point failure to pray the appropriate prayer will result in eternal damnation. Here's an illustration to illumine one problem... -
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 ... -
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... -
Why do many people consider Calvinism to be monstrous? An allegorical exploration (Part 1)
December 04th, 200902:27 PM ETThe breeder was the kindest, gentlest, most skilful, most wise and most loving breeder of dogs in all the land. One day a litter of six puppies was born to one of the breeder's dams. The birth of these puppies was surprising in certain respects, for they possessed a genetic predisposition which the breeder knew would eventually express itself in ...
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