Conditional Immortality, Soul Sleep and Annihilationism
Lots of wonderful posts and the podcast at Rethinking Hell From the blogsphere Immortality Reconsidered What the conditionalist view of hell is not Some thoughts on hell And I really appreciated this post, which addresses the issue that if hell is not eternal conscious torment why bother telling people about Jesus? Christianity is not built [...]
A few links from around the web, please leave others that might be of interest to our readers in the comments : Rethinking Hell: Episode 7: Traditional Objections Answered with Chris Date Have you heard? Episode 4 The case for annihilationism with Glenn Peoples Glenn Peoples posts on Afterlife can be found here Why I am considering the [...]
Episode 5: Erasing Hell with Preston Sprinkle A great interview with Dr. Preston who co- authored Erasing Hell. { see Erasing Hell Review on Afterlife by Jefferson Vann and Conditionalism.net/blog ’s review of Erasing Hell ( which is mentioned in the interview) } Dr. Preston Sprinkle now leans to conditionalism but is still undecided at the moment. He makes mention of E Earle [...]
This month a few links to explores the issue of body-soul dualism in Christianity Joel B. Green – The Bible, Science and the Soul see also Review of Body Soul and Human Life: The Nature of Humanity in the Bible by Joel B Green and A Summary and a Review of What About the Soul? by Joel Green [...]
Lots of new articles at rethinkinghell.com. I’ll highlight one of them although I could easily include all of them: Double Jeopardy: Why Raise the Dead, Only to Destroy Them Some have argued that if the lost will be destroyed, that is, if they are not subjected to eternal misery, then it would be pointless for God [...]
I believe this book { referring to Hell: A Final Word by Edward Fudge } and the movie Hell and Mr. Fudge have the potential to ignite a new reformation in our day. We are not done being “reformed.” We do not have perfect knowledge. We have strayed from the clear teaching of Scripture on this important subject [...]
A group on facebook called “Rethinking Hell” has recently started. I’m appreciating the discussion and joining something wider than afterlife.co.nz. It’s a truly international group with a enthusiam and passion to call Christians to Rethink Hell. Rethinking Hell is a ” A respectful discussion among Evangelical Christians, exploring Annihilationist views of Hell in light of [...]
http://www.visionnetwork.org.nz/discipleship-and-evangelism/995-research-shows-barriers-to-faith.html The concept of hell was another key blocker with 25% stating that the idea of a loving God who allowed people to go to hell, stopped them from engaging with Christianity. The 2 biggest barriers to people “engaging with Christianity” that are mentioned are: (1) the church’s stance on homosexuality (29%); (2) the concept [...]
http://www.christianforums.com/t7636841/ Conditional immortality discussed on the Christian forums http://www.patheos.com/blogs/jesuscreed/2012/02/28/admitting-ignorance/ So what does orthodox theology say about “hell”? To answer this question we might want to ask another question, one that Tony Thiselton raises in his sketch of classic German liberal thinker: If love is a permanent feature of God, and wrath is not a permanent feature [...]
You might like to vote in this poll about hell ( follow the links) http://hellboundthemovie.com/?p=431 http://scottjhiggins.com/?p=826 asks Really? Is it really true that God will “inflict wrath without any pity…he will have no compassion upon you…he will have no regard to your welfare… It would be dreadful to suffer this fierceness and wrath of almighty [...]
Here is the video from last year's conference. The transcript is here: Tracing the Road to Gehenna We should be videoing this year's conference … [Read More...]
