Careful what you blog …
April 21, 2009
GoComics.com (HT: Pseudo-Polymath >> Targuman)
Panel discussion on Heaven and Hell includes Alcorn, Packer
April 3, 2009
Video ourtesy of the Christianity Today Liveblog and Tangle:
Abel’s Paradise
February 7, 2009
By Steve Hays
For a split second, Abel felt excruciating pain as a rock smashed the base of his skull. He blacked out momentarily. When he came to, he felt himself floating above his crumpled body. His head lay in a pool of blood.
Cain was standing over the corpse, with fear in his eyes. Then Cain ran away.
Abel was still trying to piece together what had happened. He and his brother were having a verbal altercation. When Abel turned his back to leave, that’s when it happened.
It suddenly occurred to him that Cain tried to kill him. How could his own brother do that?
It then occurred to him that Cain had succeeded in killing him. Was he dead? Is this what it was like to be dead? …
Atheist-run website will deliver ‘post-rapture’ mail to Christians’ left-behind loved ones
January 22, 2009
Is it a joke? We can’t tell … visit The Post-Rapture Post
Billy Graham affirms, we will be reunited with loved ones in heaven
January 2, 2009
Yeah – they’re called universalists …
November 18, 2008
Beliefnet editor-in-chief Steven Waldman responds to questions about Obama’s faith which have been put forth recently by Joe Carter and others (see this post), with the following observation:
“But here’s the rub for orthodox Christians: millions and millions of people call themselves Christian, worship at Christian churches and believe that acceptance of Christ is not required for entry into heaven. In a recent Pew poll, 70% said ‘many religions can lead to eternal life.’ 66% of Protestants and 79% of Catholics said they agreed with that idea. … Many liberal Christians argue that Christianity is defined through actions not theology, and some dispute the idea that John 3:16 should define Christianity on this point.”
Doug Pagitt on Hell
October 27, 2008
Pagitt has posted a transcript of an interview with Todd Friel which he did a year ago, the course of which veered to the subject of the fate of the condemned. Says Pagitt,
“Read it and conclude for yourself, but to me the way he talks about the Bible, strings together verses to make his own conclusions ought to cause pause.”
Apostle Paul believed in bodily afterlife
October 7, 2008
On the Triablogue, Steve Hays takes exception to Richard Carrier’s assertion that Paul was influenced by the philosophy of Philo, who believed that after people die they assume an ethereal existence.
FYI
Philo of Alexandria (c.30 BC–cAD 45) was a Greek-speaking Jewish philosopher who influenced several early Christian thinkers. His own thought was heavily influenced by that of Plato.
