Prominent (and hilarious) Christian blogger, Matther Paul Turner, the man behind the mask of Jesus Needs New PR started a brief conversation on his Facebook today, asking whether an evangelical can be a universalist and linking to an article. The article is worth the read, but I think the conversation that ensued was more interesting. [...]
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And then there are those whose lessons about heaven consist primarily of who will be there and who won’t be there. (p. 25) … It’s very common to hear talk about heaven framed in terms of who “gets in” or how to “get in.” (p. 50) The Emergent church peeps all play a familiar tune [...]
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Here’s where I’m at with Bell’s book: the whole thing is a house of cards. Actually, perhaps a more fitting analogy would be that it is a brick wall. Each brick represents an argument that Bell makes in favor of a limited hell. With this bricks, he’s constructed a wall, and it should be clear [...]
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If you’re going to talk about hell, it’s pretty much a given to talk about heaven. And in Love Wins, Rob Bell does. After asking a lot of questions in the first chapter, questions that any serious Christian needs to wrestle with, he jumps right in to a chapter about heaven. In the vein of [...]
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There’s something Rob Bell should be praised for: his innate ability to discern legitimate questions that can and should be asked of the Christian faith. So far as that goes, Bell is a genius. He has taken the time to really think through and identify potential holes in orthodox Christianity, specifically, as it pertains to [...]
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What now? As post-conversion people – that is, Christians – how should we live? And how do we know how to live? Do we strive to be as authentic as possible, being true to who we really are as humans at the core of which is the image of God? Or do we strive to [...]
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In honor of Easter (I assume), Rob Bell – pastor of Mars Hill Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan, author of Velvet Elvis, Jesus Wants to Save Christians, and Drop Like Stars and the guy from those Nooma videos – has released a new video called Resurrection. It’s only a few minutes long. Check it out: [...]
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My friends compose a multitude of theological belief systems. While some are much more conservative, others are much more liberal. And among some of these more liberal friends there is a question about what makes the Gospel good news. The contention is this: given that Scripture teaches more will be in hell than in heaven, [...]
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A friend and I were recently engaging in a theological discussion while smoking hookah (one of my favorite combinations) and we came to disagreement on a particular subject: will some people be punished more harshly in hell than others/will some people receive greater rewards in heaven than others? To both questions, I answered “Yes.” To [...]
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Imagine this view of heaven: It is one where we Christians get off scotch free, told “well done my good and faithful servant,” and are invited into paradise. We, unlike our unbelieving counterparts, are not judged at all. In place of our names and our sins is the name of Jesus and his righteousness, his [...]
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