Posts under ‘Faith’

A few days ago, I wrote about the Old Testament’s portrayal of the fiery place that most Christians call hell. In a nutshell, it doesn’t really exist in the OT. Instead, after death everyone goes to a mysterious, vague place called Sheol in the original Hebrew. Sheol contains no rewards or punishments. Those issues are [...]

One of the biggest objections to Christianity is the concept of hell, defined by most Christians as a place of eternal torment for those who don’t believe in Christ. Non-Christians don’t see how a loving God can send not just some, but the vast majority of the people he created to eternal torment. I struggled, [...]

Fear of hell, it seems, is a powerful motivator. For some (Catholics, Church of Christ-ians, and other groups whose view of salvation is somewhat fuzzy), hell is a good way to encourage people to live a good life. For many evangelicals (by which I mean Baptists, Bible Churchers, Pentecostals, some Methodists, some Lutherans, and others [...]

Here’s an interesting mini-sermon on faith and doubt from Barry Jones at Dallas Theological Seminary. Help My Unbelief