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An Examination of Conditional Immortality (Part One)

...nemies of the cross of Christ; I have often told you of them, and now I tell you even with tears. their end is destruction; their god is the belly; and their glory is in their shame; their minds are set on earthly things. 1 thessalonians 5:3When they say, “there is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape! 2 Peter 3:7But by the same word the present heavens and earth have been reserved for fire, being kept until the day of judgement and destruction of the godless. As you can see from these few examples, there is a pretty uniform semantic range here, which in an...

BOOK REVIEW: Four Views on Hell 2nd edition

...This is a guest post by David Jakubovic. the views are that of the author and don't necessarily reflect the views of That Ancient Faith. A 20 year update of the 1996 book by the same name, this slim volume (211 pages) is a helpful cross-section of current evangelical thought on Final Punishment, sampling Denny Burk on Eternal Conscious Torment (ECT hereafter), John Stackhouse Jr on Conditional immortality (CI hereafter), Robin Parry on Christian Universalism (CU hereafter) and Jerry Walls on (a Protestant) Purgatory. Preston Sprinkle pens both Introduction and Conclusion, plus there are Scripture, Author and Subject indices. the Introduction sets the scene,...

the Temptations of Jesus: Worship and Glory

...Here we are on the second Sunday of Lent, and this week I am looking at the next temptation Jesus faced in the desert against the devil, the one of worship and glory. Let's take a look at the text: Luke 4:5-8 then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And the devil said to him, “To you I will give their glory and all this authority; for it has been given over to me, and I give it to anyone I please. If you, then, will worship me, it will all be yours.”  Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Worship the Lord your God,    and serve only him.’” (cf. Matthew 4:8-10) Last week we saw how Satan temp...

the Relationship Between Jesus and Sophia

...d through the cross (Colossians 2:15). I won’t list everything out, but I would recommend having a search for yourselves. Maybe now whenever you read of “wisdom” in the Bible, you’ll picture it differently if you have Jesus in mind from now on, and peel back another layer of the Scriptures, finding a deeper level than before. “the Bible is shallow enough for a child not to drown, yet deep enough for an elephant to swim.”, as Augustine apparently said. there’s plenty more that could be said on this topic, but I’ll end here as this has become a lot longer than I anticipated! Let’s finish as we began, examining the final part of the claims from...

Support Israel? OK, which Israel?

... through the cross, thus putting to death that hostility through it. Galatians 3:28-29 there is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s offspring, heirs according to the promise. And finally, Romans 2:28-29 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is true circumcision something external and physical. Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart—it is spiritual and not literal. Such a person receives praise not from others but from God....

Will the Real Heretics Please Stand Up (Book Review)

...Straight off, this book will challenge you in your thinking and quite possibly in your practice and outworking of life as a Christian—especially if you are from an evangelical/Baptist/non-denominational background. Will the Real HereticsPlease Stand Up the book starts of taking you carefully through some of the practices and beliefs of the early church and those who knew the Apostles personally. It all feels very hopeful and like you're being led onward in a journey towards a certain goal, much of which I'm sure you'll find agreeable in what Bercot points out as discrepancies between early Christianity and today. then we get to a few points about the Re...