Mark 9:43, Jeremiah 17:27, 2Chronicles 36:19 “The fire that shall not be quenched” is the fire that cannot be put out until it has do its work.Matthew 25:41 v:46… ‘eternal punishment’ and eternal fire. Are eternal in its results. See Jude 7. This happened thousands...
If we were in my classroom right now, I would draw a BIG circle on the board and next to it I would draw a very little circle. The big circle would represent all the evidence on the subject we have been considering and the...
Are the words of Jesus in Luke 16:19-31 intended to be understood literally or as a parable? Unfortunately, many modern religious teachers isolate the story from its original context in a series of parables that begin in chapter 15: the lost sheep. The lost coin,...
Many look upon ‘hell’ as a vast fiery pit where sinners suffer and burn forever, while demons with pitch forks enjoy torturing the eternally damned. The Bible does not endorse such an idea. As we examine the teaching of the Bible on this subject, it...
One of the most theologically confused subjects in the Bible, one that was fumbled and distorted by the church until it became a vulgarism and expletive. Will a God of love torture people throughout eternity just because they do not believe in Him? This confusion...
About 16 years ago I was teaching a year 12 HSC class for the Studies of Religion subject. A student, in the course of our discussion, asked me why God needed a hell to burn people in forever. I explained that there are two views...
A smoker once asked me if he would go to hell because of His habit. I said, “No you just smell like you have been there already.” As a child Robert Ingersoll, the famous atheist, listened to a preacher expound the doctrine of how God...
A quick recap on the lies about God we have been considering. The first one is that God can be whatever you want Him to be. This is the supermarket religion that has a whole spectrum of beliefs – all that ignore the revelation that...
The third and final lesson we gathered yesterday from this divine megaphone of calamity was that we escape the coming final judgment by repentance. This is an orbiting cemetery from which there is only one way of escape. When the Titanic, four days into its...
We have been considering how can God be good when He permits things that seem to be so destructive and hurtful to humans? Firstly, we noted that His ways are not our ways. Secondly, we decided that God acts from the standpoint of eternity rather...
