Below is Parry’s article—originally published as Bell’s Hells: seven myths about universalism in the Baptist Times, now found on Reforming Hell. You can be a good evangelical without believing in eternal punishment, writes Robin Parry On Tuesday February 22 2011, Rob Bell –…
The new testament of the Bible was originally translated from a Greek manuscript. Since the manuscript was written in Greek, it makes sense to study the Greek words themselves to better understand the King James Bible. A word study is…
Where are the limits to our free will vs. God’s free will? We will attempt to examine this in this brief blog. First off, I must make you aware that, as it is normally taught in most conservative evangelical denominations…
“God was in Christ, reconciling the WORLD to himself, not counting men’s sins against them.” “Love keeps no record of wrongs.” Love reaches out to do for us what we cannot do for ourselves. It saves us. What does it…
The most destructive doctrine within Christianity is not “hell”. It is man’s belief in “free will”. This is the conclusion of Martin Zender’s enlightening book entitled The Really Bad Thing about Free Will. In his book, Martin stresses that the…
Matthew 25:46 is the poster child verse for those who believe in eternal conscious torment in hell. It’s the ONLY verse in the entire Bible where we find the word “eternal” beside the word “punishment”. It’s the verse that fire-and-brimstone…
A common objection that we often hear is that universal reconciliation is some “new age” false teaching — but is it? Not hardly. Any honest researcher will at least acknowledge that many in the early church believed in what we…
(see credits below…) What does the Victorious Gospel of Jesus, the Chosen One sound like removed from the “traditions of men which make the word of God of no effect? Matt. 15:6-9.: Christ, to whom, in whom, and for whom…
Written by: Pastor David R. BaughmanBoston Bar, B.C., Canadapastordave@mailcity.com For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23 The doctrine of eternal torment for 95% of mankind is…