Therefore, let us leave the elementary teaching about Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, faith in God, teaching about ritual washings, laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment. (Hebrews 6:1-2...
Christianity, both contemporary and historical, has focused primarily on self-denial, and so has often mishandled and abused not only the concept of self, but the people it was meant to rescue and nurture. Biblically, there are actually five different selves, one of which is to...
If you are unfamiliar with NPR’s Intelligence Squared debates, you are missing out. They gather four excellently qualified people to debate, two against two, propositions on currently hot and debated topics. The most recent, entitled Lifespans are Long Enough, brings up many interesting philosophical, moral,...
Here is the lecture I gave at the 2015 Rethinking Hell Conference. It’s about an hour long, but I think it’s worth it. Enjoy.
For those new to the debate over hell, there are three main positions in Christendom: The Traditional View, a.k.a. Eternal Conscious Punishment (ECP), claims that those who fail to receive Christ are punished for the sins by being tormented forever in hell. The Conditional View,...
The second Rethinking Hell conference just finished, and this year was more fun than last year because I got to present a breakout lecture entitled A Philosophical Case for Conditional Immortality (I’ll post the audio and slides in a future post). Being embedded in the...
I am thrilled to announce that I will be delivering a paper at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Philosophical Society’s Far West Regional Conference. The theme of the conference is Reformation in the Wings, and the title of my paper is The Philosophical Case for Conditionalism....
This post is part of a series. As you may have read in the last article in this series, my traditionalist friend responded with one final scripture often used to support the traditional view of Eternal Conscious Torment (ECT): I’m listening to Jesus in Luke...
