ROLLER UPDATE #33 – July 28, 2010
QUESTION OF THE MONTH
Q: Will Enoch and Elijah be the two end-time “prophets” of Revelation 11?
A: No. The question is based on two commonly-believed ideas, both …

From today’s GraceEmail
A sister from an independent Christian church in Idaho writes: “You mentioned a book you co-authored on the subject of final punishment, your part being to present the biblical case for conditional immortality. …

A recent discussion about hell can be found at http://www.theologyonline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63576.

Video number six, the final video in the series Life Death and the Resurrection is entitled, ”In the End What?” Here is the outline that goes with the video.
Reading: 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18
“The public are turning to …

Video #5 in the series Life Death and the Resurrection is entitled, “The End of Evil”.
It is an interview with Rev. Brian Smith, then Principal of Carey Baptist College, the theological college of the Baptist Union of …

The following is the insert provided with Warren’s videos. It will provide an outline for the fourth video which will be available on You Tube soon.
Video #4 The Judgement of God
Reading: Mark 9:42-48
(1) Hell is …

Here is the audio of the fifth in a series of sermons I am preaching at my church (on Conditional Immortality and specifically here, the Kingdom of God as the hope of the righteous). The sermon …

A friend of mine wrote the following piece on his blog site Explaining the Bible.
Yesterday I found a thrush that had clearly only just died, apparently after flying into a solid object. It was …

This is the fifth of a series of sermons I am preaching at my church. This one is entitled, The Hope of The Righteous: The Kingdom of God on Earth! (Part 1). It is less …

There is a “Far Side” cartoon titled Nerds In Hell, where there are a few devils pictured, some flames, some sweaty folks, and two nerds in glasses, one of whom says to the other: “Hot …

This is my Editorial from the latest “From Death to Life” Magazine. I have received quite a few comments about it and am putting it up as a blog post for those who haven’t downloaded …

Notes from the fourth in a series of sermons I am preaching at my church (audio to follow next week).
“Hell is Manhattan at rush hour!”, said Woody Allen. John Paul Sartre suggested that “hell is …

LIFE, DEATH AND THE RESURRECTION #1: “TO BE OR NOT TO BE”

The following was the first part of an insert provided with Warren’s videos. It will provide an outline for those who wish to …

In 1993 Pastor Warren Prestidge made a 6-part video series (now available on DVD) , entitled Life, Death and the Resurrection, which provides thought provoking teaching on these subjects from a biblical (conditional immortality) perspective.
We …

In an article entitled: “Immortality of the Soul” (at Jewish Encylopedia Dot Com) Kaufmann Kohler states:
“The belief in the immortality of the soul came to the Jews from contact with Greek thought and chiefly through the …

This piece originally appeared as an editorial in “From Death to Life” Issue 21 Oct / Dec 2001 and is being reposted as we approach the anniversary of the 9/11 tragedy.
The recent terrorist attacks on America …

From gracEmail by Edward Fudge
A Bible student writes, “I am sympathetic to your position of total destruction instead of everlasting conscious torment. But how do you explain the verse which says: ‘where the worm dies not …

Most people understand that the Revelation is full of highly figurative language, largely drawn from imagery used by the Old Testament prophets. This being so we must carefully examine the Old Testament background that lies …

The doctrine of hell as a cosmic torture chamber was propounded by a number of prominent medieval thinkers, among them Augustine and Aquinas.
According to Kelly James Clark, in God is Great, God is Good: Medieval Conceptions …

According to Epicureans, anticipating one’s own annihilation ought not to be a frightening experience. Non-existence precludes the possibility of sensation. Consequently annihilation can be neither pleasant nor unpleasant. And that which cannot be felt as …