Reading Time: 5 minutes Here is a recent question to William Lane Craig on his Reasonable Faith website: Hi Dr Craig, I’ve been studying the Perseverance of the Saints and I found your paper on the subject very thought-provoking. I have been wrestling with this subject as of late and there appear to be certain difficulties with the traditional understanding of […]
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Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: Satan, Heaven & Hell
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introductory spiel: One of my more recent books, Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century (UK), has a plethora of gems in it for the reader and a smorgasbord of variety. It was a labour of love and was particularly rewarding due to the fact that so many great writers had been involved in the production of […]
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Not Seeing OmniGod through Philosophy and Logic: Heaven & Consequentialism
Reading Time: 3 minutes Introductory spiel: One of my more recent books, Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century (UK), has a plethora of gems in it for the reader and a smorgasbord of variety. It was a labour of love and was particularly rewarding due to the fact that so many great writers had been involved in the production of […]
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The boy who didn’t come back from heaven but said he did
Reading Time: 4 minutes A best-selling book about Alex Malarkey’s supposed return from heaven proved to be a lie first page to last. Why would Christians endorse that?
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Why do religious zealots spawn catastrophes? They imagine Paradise.
Reading Time: 4 minutes A 2016 book by an apostate Muslim explains how belief in Paradise can self-justify religious extremists in committing unspeakable crimes.
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Questions About Heaven I Never Thought to Ask When I Was Christian
Reading Time: 9 minutes Today, let me show you some of the questions I had about Heaven. In their way, they represent bigger dealbreakers than anything I didn’t ask about Hell.
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What “Christians” Should Think about Others & Heaven
Reading Time: 3 minutes True and Proper Christians™ appear to have a mixed view when it comes to heaven and what they think should happen to non-Christians, or even other denominations of Christian, in the event of death. As nonbelievers, we often get frustrated with Christians standing on the roadside and witnessing. But, in reality, if you were to […]
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Whittenberger’s Heaven & Hell – What Would Yours Be?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Here is what Gary Whittenberger offered as his coherent version of heaven and hell in response to my article on the notion that heaven and hell are binary and yet all of human moral activities sit along various different continua. Thanks for this interesting article. You said “The only sensible way around this is some […]
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If Only He Knew (How to Prioritize His Wife)
Reading Time: 10 minutes We return now to Gary Smalley’s terrible Christian marriage-advice book If Only He Knew. This time, we examine advice that appears in every single such book: that to maintain a happy, harmonious marriage, spouses should prioritize their god over their partners. This book continues that tradition. But is this advice really useful? And how can Christians actually put it into practice? Today, we ask questions about one of the mainstays of Christian marriage advice.
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Do You Really Believe in a Binary Heaven and Hell?
Reading Time: 3 minutes I stole a loaf of bread. It was for my starving family. We had no other choice. I stole two loaves of bread. I just felt I had to. I’m a kleptomaniac. I stole 50 loaves of bread. I did it for the refugee camp just down the road. So many people starving. I stole a hundred loaves […]