Hell

October 2017

October 25, 2017
No, we shouldn't fear God-- God is not some violent clown.

August 2017

August 17, 2017
Friends of Formerly Fundie: As some of you may have seen on Facebook, I have...

April 2017

April 12, 2017
Christian universalism is a solidly biblical and reasonable belief.

January 2017

January 27, 2017
Growing up Evangelical, we were often warned that some issues were "heaven or hell" issues....

September 2016

September 14, 2016
After leaving Christian fundamentalism, I shed off a lot of previously held beliefs-- some of...
September 07, 2016
So, you're a sinner. Just one sin lands you in that category. No matter how...

June 2016

June 22, 2016
As many know, I have long been a proponent of the view of Annihilationism, which...
June 20, 2016
It's no secret- I've been a little hard on my Calvinist friends over the years...

January 2016

January 30, 2016
For me growing up, hell was the center of gravity and perhaps my biggest motivation...

September 2015

September 03, 2015
Many of us grow up hearing hell, fire, and brimstone messages in our churches from...
September 01, 2015
Here on the blog and That God Show, we've talked quite a bit about the...

May 2015

May 28, 2015
(This post is my continuing dialogue with the ideas of Jeff Cook,  from his new book, Everything New: Reimagining...
May 27, 2015
Over the course of the past year I've had an ongoing series introducing readers to...

February 2015

February 18, 2015
The violence we're seeing at the hands of ISIS is disgustingly barbaric. If mass beheadings,...

January 2015

January 30, 2015
In a follow up to our recent episode of That God Show, folks have asked...
January 28, 2015
Most of us grow up being taught that all those who die without accepting Christ...

August 2014

August 27, 2014
  More and more Christians are beginning to reject the traditional view of hell which...

July 2014

July 03, 2014
1. It would be way too crowded for them. One of the basic tenets of Christian...

June 2014

June 25, 2014
The word Jesus uses in Greek is γέεννα (Gehenna), which actually means "The Valley of...
June 24, 2014
Continuing the discussion on hell we started yesterday, I was asked to show the third...
June 23, 2014
  Affirming that scripture is inspired and true means one must also affirm the "eternal,...

March 2014

March 12, 2014
Calvinism, in contrast to Jesus, teaches that God picks a few and not the rest--...
March 08, 2014
Three years ago today, my wife and I took a long drive from Lima, Peru...
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