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Pressing Chris Date’s Retreat
Over at “Rethinking Hell,” Mr. Chris Date has retreated a few steps in his discussion of the meaning of the term “punishment.” Recall that the argument that “punishment” in this case was a “result” noun was one of Mr. Date’s first supposedly “positive” arguments for his position. Now, Mr. Date tries to argue for ambiguity.…
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Everlasting Contempt
In my debates on hell, I didn’t mention the following verse: Daniel 12:2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. Perhaps I should have, as it helps to make clear one of the verses I did cited:…
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Until He Pay the Uttermost Farthing
Two of the verses sometimes used to argue for the position that hell is eternal state: Matthew 5:26Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing. Matthew 18:34And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that…
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Response to Scoffer
I am glad to see that at least one scoffer has found my blog. He provided the following comments, which I have redacted and edited to either omit or restrain the blasphemy and to standardize the syntax/spelling/etc.: Unless he punishes all sin in the individual who actually commits it, and does so in proportion to…
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Short Response to so-called Evangelical Universalism
There is a new book out, entitled “The Evangelical Universalist.” Its premise appears to be that Christ will save everyone, and that he will do so through the preaching of the gospel. (link to review/author interview) While one can appreciate the softness of heart that would motivate such a conclusion, it is not a Scriptural…