Have you ever wanted to come up with a good 1-2 punch from the Bible to help you win arguments about why God hates abortion? Well, now you can. Here are the only passages you need to know to turn your abortion loving friends against killing babies: Exodus 20:13 – “Thou shalt not kill.” Well,…
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What Else Did They Lie About?
It began in the fall of ’98. Up until then I’d been a good fundamentalist. Sure, I knew the Bible had to be properly interpreted, and I wasn’t under any crazy illusion that the KJV was a perfect translation, but I still assumed that the Elders in my assembly knew what they were talking about…
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
Questions Could your pastor or priest be lying to you, even if only inadvertently? Is the Bible truly as accurate as you’ve been told it is? Are there really no contradictions or errors in its pages? And, even if it is accurate, is it possible that the interpretations (and methods of interpretation) you’ve been taught…
Dialogue With an Evangelical: The Movie
Three years ago, I shared a little dialogue between myself and a random evangelical on the subjects of hell and Christian Universalism. For the fun of it, I decided to make up a short video of that discussion using those talking bears I’ve been seeing around the web over the last few months. It seems to…
A New Rule
A little over two years ago I issued my Everlasting Hell Challenge, which asked Protestant Christians who base their theology on the Bible alone to demonstrate convincingly that the traditionalist evangelical view on hell and damnation is a much clearer teaching in Scripture than the idea that hell is not a place of everlasting torment…
Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits
I have had people of various religions and denominations try to convince me that their set of doctrines are the truth and that if I don’t follow their particular philosophy then I will come to a bad end (or at least not as good an end as I could). With so many different ideologies competing…
Dialogue With an Evangelical – Part 2: The Bible
Everlasting torment in hell isn’t the only topic I’ve discussed with “Bob.” We’ve talked about all sorts of other theological and philosophical issues, one of my favorites being when we’ve talked about his thoughts on the Bible: Bob: The problem with most Christians today is that they just don’t follow the Bible any more. If…
Defending Everlasting Torment
The fact that nobody has succeeded in completing my Everlasting Hell Challenge doesn’t necessarily prove that it can’t be done, but I’m not holding my breath that someone will be able to. In the meantime, however, we may as well take a look at the passages in Scripture that are used to back up the…
Do You Believe What Jesus Taught?
When discussing or debating Universal Reconciliation with Christians who hold the traditional views of heaven and hell I will often be told that Jesus taught everlasting torment in hell for non-believers so we have to believe it. Whether or not He did (and you all know by now that I don’t believe He did), I…
Make Them Prove It
Admittedly it’s only a few days old, but so far no takers on my Everlasting Hell Challenge here on my blog, and only one taker on the website where I originally posted it and so far he hasn’t come up with anything substantial. So with that in mind I want to give a piece of…
The Everlasting Hell Challenge
On a Christian message board I sometimes visit we’ve been discussing the issue of hell which got me to thinking and I came up with a challenge for Protestant Christians who base their theology on the Bible alone: Demonstrate convincingly that the idea that “those who die without putting their faith in Jesus Christ alone…
