Throughout history various heretics (not to mention infidels, apostates and other non-believers in particular doctrines and dogmas) have been ostracized, persecuted, tortured and even killed for their particular beliefs (or lack thereof). Apparently we are often considered to be such a threat to the well being of society that if we are not eliminated we…
Just because it's "orthodox" doesn't mean it's true
Category Archives: hell
Universalism vs. Freedom?
Over the years of discussing the topic of Universalism I’ve been told time and again that Universalism takes away our freedom to choose, that if God saves everybody then He’s ignoring our free will. While any Universalist who has studied the topic is quite aware that this isn’t the case I find myself constantly having…
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…
What Must I Do To Be Saved?
BruceD, of YBMT.org, recently asked the question “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” Well, presuming for a moment that the Bible is meant to be taken as literally as most evangelicals seem to believe, what does it say that I have to do (and avoid) in order to go to heaven and not…
Photos of Hell
When Jesus spoke about “hell” in the Bible, the word He really used in most cases was “Gehenna” (the Bible wasn’t originally written in English. Actually, the English word “hell” is a bad translation that probably shouldn’t be in the Bible at all). Gehenna, also known as the Valley of Hinnom, was actually a place…
