Perspective On Eternity

Hell? Is it being treated fairly?   I was recently tagged in a note that referenced a website that made some very strong claims about the Bible’s teaching about God and about the reality of hell (as a reaction to the Crazy Harold Camping’s prediction that May 21st is the rapture).   My intention in this post is not to write an exhaustive argument for or against hell but to respond to the website that was referenced in the Facebook note.   To begin I would like to recommend a video posted by Francis Chan on studying this topic. Response to Bill Mcginnis ‘Do all non-Christians go to hell? Bible says “No!” ( Click Here to see the original site) * The text in bold will be direct quotations from Mcginnis’ website   It was this false doctrine, as much as anything else, which allowed the Church to authorize torture to be used to extract confessions from suspected witches during the Inquisition. "After all," the reasoning went, "what is a few hours or days of t

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