I’m not sure how popular or unpopular Real Live Preacher is among my readers, but I usually find his perspective quite refreshing. He recently did a video series on hell, examining the traditional conservative evangelical view. He first asked his readers to give him all the verses in the New Testament (he argues the OT [...]
RLP on hell
October 27th, 2008 · 8 Comments
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On justice and judgment
September 15th, 2008 · 5 Comments
From Andre: A further thought on justice – because it’s on my mind and is integral to understanding judgment: Traditional Hell is not justice. It is merely torture to no end. The biblical idea of justice does not mean punishment to no end – it means making things right. It is restorative. The notion of [...]
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You become what you worship
August 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment
This is what N.T. Wright has to say about final judgment in Surprised by Hope (the book to which the author quoted in the last post was responding): . . . I believe [the following possibility] does justice to both the key texts and to the realities of human life of which, after a century [...]
Then neither do I condemn you.
August 25th, 2008 · 4 Comments
I haven’t touched the subject of Christian Universalism in a while, but I came across some interesting thoughts a couple of weeks ago, which I have been meaning to post. Once again, even if we don’t believe that scripture supports a Christian Universalist perspective, it is fair to say that hoping for and desiring universal [...]
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