Reading Time: 4 minutes This is another guest post from Dana Horton, following on from his piece What Does Jesus Say about the Afterlife? What does Paul say about the afterlife? (5 minute read) In an earlier post, we examined what Jesus said, and did not say, about the afterlife. Let’s do a compare and contrast with Paul. Why is […]
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What Does Jesus Say about the Afterlife?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Here is another guest post from Dana Horton, this time looking at Jesus’ claims regarding life beyond death (thanks Dana!): What does Jesus say about the afterlife? A lot of us in a western Christian culture just assume there is an afterlife. It is what we grew up believing. So that means the afterlife is […]
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Quote of the Day on the Morality of Those Seeking Heaven
Reading Time: 2 minutes I will be expanding on this, but this point from a regular astute commenter is exactly one that I have touched upon here: Heaven & Hell Stop You From Genuinely Morally Evaluating But if you can’t be bothered to read that, read (((J_Enigma32)))’s recent comment: Oh, there’s a bunch of problems with heaven, but all of […]
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The One Unforgiveable Sin
Reading Time: 2 minutes Matthew 7:13-14 English Standard Version (ESV) 13 “Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy[a] that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are […]
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Pearced Off! #5 – Hell as Incoherent
Reading Time: < 1 minute I am running a series of the old podcast segments from my Pearced Off! section of the Skepticule Podcast (a British skepticism-based podcast now on hiatus) that I used to contribute to. Some of the earlier ones have some quieter audio. Apologies. They run at around ten minutes. Something to keep you company outside of Netflix and the […]
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Craig on Terminating Would-Be Apostates
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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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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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 […]