{"id":10659,"date":"2015-01-28T14:57:30","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T19:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/formerlyfundie\/?p=10659"},"modified":"2015-01-28T14:57:30","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T19:57:30","slug":"the-biblical-alternative-to-hell-that-god-show-ep17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/formerlyfundie\/the-biblical-alternative-to-hell-that-god-show-ep17\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biblical Alternative to Hell (That God Show EP17)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/385\/2015\/01\/ID-100285344.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-10660 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/385\/2015\/01\/ID-100285344.jpg\" alt=\"ID-100285344\" width=\"295\" height=\"196\"><\/a>Most of us grow up being taught that all those who die without accepting Christ will burn for all eternity in hell. While in this hell, they\u2019ll be consciously tortured, day and night\u2013 forever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But is this even biblical?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you read your Bible without having any prior knowledge of this \u201chell\u201d would you walk away believing in it as a result?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Probably not- because it\u2019s not biblical. It wasn\u2019t biblical in the time of Jesus (hell wasn\u2019t in <em>his<\/em> Bible) and it\u2019s not in ours, either.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In this week\u2019s episode of That God Show, Benjamin sits down with Kurt Willems to talk all things related to the doctrine of \u201cconditionalism\u201d which is the biblical alternative to what your Sunday School teachers taught you about hell. Find out exactly what the Bible teaches, and explore what our relationships with others would look like if we did not have the underlying issue of hell on our mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Catch the entire episode of That God Show, right here!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"audio_iframe\" src=\"http:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/eyi6z-536e6e\/initByJs\/1\/auto\/1?skin=12\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Related reading: find Ben\u2019s full archive on hell related theology, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/formerlyfundie\/category\/letting-go-of-hell-series\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Additionally, you can visit Kurt Willem\u2019s hell series, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thepangeablog\/category\/series-hell-yes-hell-no-who-cares\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. And don\u2019t forget to consider Kurt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/thepangeablog\/2015\/01\/27\/giving-up-hell-for-a-year\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">challenge to give up hell this year.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/385\/2014\/08\/god-show-logo-final_112kb.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9164\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/385\/2014\/08\/god-show-logo-final_112kb-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"god-show-logo-final_112kb\" width=\"225\" height=\"219\"><\/a> Don\u2019t forget to <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/that-god-show\/id907336272?mt=2\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">subscribe to That God Show in iTunes<\/a>, or catch up on episodes via the <a href=\"http:\/\/thatgodshow.podbean.com\/e\/ep17-the-biblical-alternative-to-hell-1422473193\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">*header image via freedigitalphotos.net<\/p>\n<p class=\"fb-like-box\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/benjaminlcorey\" data-width=\"600\" data-height=\"250\" data-colorscheme=\"light\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-header=\"false\" data-stream=\"false\" data-show-border=\"true\">\n<\/p><\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us grow up being taught that all those who die without accepting Christ will burn for all eternity in hell. While in this hell, they\u2019ll be consciously tortured, day and night\u2013 forever. But is this even biblical? If you read your Bible without having any prior knowledge of this \u201chell\u201d would you walk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1638,"featured_media":10660,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,374,440],"tags":[457,456,3210],"class_list":["post-10659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christian-culture","category-letting-go-of-hell-series","category-that-god-show","tag-annihilation","tag-conditionalism","tag-hell"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Biblical Alternative to Hell (That God Show EP17)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Most of us grow up being taught that all those who die without accepting Christ will burn for all eternity in hell. 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