http://www.godislovehellisnot.com Your ideas and theology on hell changes your life on earth! Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:06:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en People are amazed that some of the evangelical and orthodox (?) spiritual giants do not believe in an eternal hell. My commentary of earlier this week about Billy Graham had many people running for the Google bar to check it out. Maybe even Wikipedia! But, you have to ask yourself, ... http://www.godislovehellisnot.com/archive/cs-lewis-says.php In the business world, a monopoly is frowned upon and even legislated out of being such. A monopoly (from Greek monos) is defined as a persistent market situation where there is only one provider of a product or service, in other words a firm that has no competitors in its ... http://www.godislovehellisnot.com/archive/what-monopoly.php Foundationally and fundamentally, one cannot read the New Testament and come away with the idea that God is the Daddy, Abba Father, of SOME people on this planet! Almighty God, the Creator of the universe and all things within and without, who is greater than even that is Father of ... http://www.godislovehellisnot.com/archive/whos-your-daddy.php Western theological tradition seemingly trapped people in front of (or in back of) two doors. You either had the choice of an unjust and unloving God who simply asked you to forgive 70 x 7 , but He was exempted from such formulas: door # 1. Or, you had this ... http://www.godislovehellisnot.com/archive/door-3-please.php At the heart of the heaven-hell debate is is a more series thread that runs through all of life and the question, "What think ye of Christ"? It has been very subtle, but what is patently obvious ov er the last 25 years is that Christianity has been moving away ... http://www.godislovehellisnot.com/archive/christology-not-eschatology.php From man, as a result of karma I can see it; however, from God who created us? How does that jive with God is love? God chose eternal damnation for the majority of the world? Why would He do that? What sense does that make. Being all-knowing, He set up ... http://www.godislovehellisnot.com/archive/retributive-punishment.php For umpteen centuries Christians thought that God loved only them: much like most Muslims think everyone needs to follow only Islam and Allah. Today, most people can see through such arrogance, even if subconsciously held. For Christians though, it has been a slow revealing that while there certainly is salvation ... http://www.godislovehellisnot.com/archive/salvation-for-all.php There's no doubt that Pope Benedict the XVI is a holy man. While I would give him an "A" on his ETHICS, it is something more askin to a "C-" on His THEOLOGY. Ah, but who am I to characterize the Pope? Earlier this year he said, "Hell is a ... http://www.godislovehellisnot.com/archive/proof-of-infallibility.php Torturing people without end, with no redemptive purpose in mind- out right cruelty without end, is the picture of God that Jesusu painted? This is Abba Father? Explain it to me please. Justice you say? How is eternal, infinite hell a just recompense for finite temporal sins? Explain that ... http://www.godislovehellisnot.com/archive/abba-father.php I loved the 1996 movie by Mel Gibson entitled Ransom, but I'm talking about a far greater in scope ransom. A ranson is the practice of holding a prisoner to extort money or property to secure their release, or it can refer to the sum of money involved. But I'm ... http://www.godislovehellisnot.com/archive/ransom-paid-in-full.php