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RLP on hell

October 27th, 2008 · 8 Comments

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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