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BOOK REVIEW: Four Views on Hell 2nd edition

...mage of a perpetual tormenter. There is no joy here in the suffering of the wicked, but only sad justice.”33 Chapter Two (‘Terminal Punishment’) is Stackhouse’s defence of CI (he dubs it ‘terminal punishment’ 61). He firstly reminds us that the biblical hell is a destination depicted as both a fire and a dump; while he admits that the ‘garbage dump of Jerusalem’ designation is certainly apocryphal, he still uses the word ‘dump’ since “hell is the place to which evil is removed and in which it is destroyed.” (63) In justifying why hell can even be ‘good’, he reasons: “Hell as dump demonstrates that God intends to remove evil once a...

The Deity of Christ in the Gospel of Matthew - Part 2

...iming his perpetual presence with his people wherever they are. To understand the importance of Matthew’s choice of this theme an overview of this subject in the Old Testament is needed. In the book of Genesis man is created (and woman from his side), then they are placed in the garden of Eden where they enjoy the presence of God who walked with them, until they act disobediently to him after which he came to them and it is written; (Genesis 3:8): “Now they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.” The result is...