“Sinners in the hands of an angry God”
In this famous sermon - a negative icon of everything that people perceive ...
A note on ‘aion’ in the LXX
Does the Greek root 'aion*' always entail infinite duration? One relevant set ...
Aiōnios: duration, quality, or both?
In his book The Fire That Consumes Fudge devotes an entire chapter (chapter ...
Brian McLaren reads John 14:6
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except ...
Descriptions of hell
Hell is described as a place where the fire never goes out, Mk 9:43 a place ...
Eternal torment
This is a hard post to write. If there is one aspect of revealed truth that ...
How can heaven and hell co-exist eternally?
How can heaven and hell possibly co-exist everlastingly (asks Philip Edgecumbe ...
Is hell for ever?
I present here arguments for and against this difficult and disputed question. ...
Is hell self-chosen?
I must admit that for quite a long while I have been sympathetic to the view ...
Judgment according to works
Recent re-thinking about the doctrine of justification throws up a related ...
Packer on eternal punishment
In 1990, aware that respected evangelicals such as John Stott, Philip Edgcumbe ...
Pauline descriptions of hell
Douglas Moo observes that in most English versions, the word 'hell' is not ...
Steve Chalke on ‘eternal punishment’
One of the problems with Steve Chalke's book The Lost Message of Paul is that ...