I have a whole list of pet peeves, but one of my top annoyances to date is a list of Christian doctrines that are not only erroneous (IMO), but have driven people away from faith unnecessarily. I want to call these out and toast them....
In my last post, I discussed the various defenses of the eternality of hell – this time, I would like to compare the role of punishment in the temporal world (our current temporal time frame) and in eternity (eternal time frame). 1. What does EARTHLY...
Rob Bell’s new book Love Wins is a modern reformulation of Christian Universalism, that is, the idea that all are saved from judgement by the works of Christ. Not a new idea, but controversial coming from a supposed evangelical. One of the questions the problem...
Here’s some interesting Christian inspirational spam that I received – decent enough to put up. ————————————– “THE ROOM” as written by a 17 Year Old Boy. This is excellent and really gets you thinking about what will happen in Heaven. 17-year-old Brian Moore had only...
This series is a redux of a great exposition of Romans 1 by John MacArthur called A Nation Abandoned by God. The Wrath of God 1 – Five Types of Divine Anger The Wrath of God 2 – How God abandons a nation The Wrath...
Al Mohler has suggested that we can use a church or individual’s theology of hell as a measure of their theological liberalism. He also mentions that there is a characteristic ‘slide’ from the orthodox (read ‘biblical’) view of hell to…
CT has a nice article entitled Reductionist Justice, in which the author discusses the error of Job’s friends, which was to reduce all suffering to God’s retributive justice for sin. As the author notes, there are at least eight types of suffering described in the...
This post is part of a series. I urge you to listen to the first and second parts (second part tomorrow) of the two part radio series on Focus on the Family, which began today. The series is a couple of lectures by John MacArthur...
