To finish up my eschatology class yesterday, I took my students
on a tour of the best articles on the Internet on the subject of Hell.
Here are some of the links and lessons we drew from these posts.
Understand the nature and roots of opposition to the doctrine of Hell
As Tom Ascol highlights in the sample quotes at the beginning of this post, there is widespread virulent and vicious opposition to the idea of hell.
Bertrand Russell: “There is one very serious defect to my mind in
Christ’s moral character, and that is that He believed in hell.” The
idea of eternal punishment for sin is “a doctrine that put cruelty in
the world and gave the world generations of cruel torture.”
Religious philosopher John Hick refers to hell as a “grim fantasy”
that is not only “morally revolting” but also “a serious perversion of
the Christian Gospel.” Continue at David Murray
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