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It is appointed unto a man once to die
Republished from John Roller’s update #49 see also http://www.johnroller.com/ QUESTION OF THE MONTH Q: The Bible says that it is appointed unto a man once to die and after that the judgment (Hebrews...
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Analysing Ecclesiastes 9:5
“For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten” (Ecclesiastes 9:5 KJV). Ecclesiastes 9:5 has been...
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Examining Romans 2:6-8
“(God) will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;but for those who are self- seeking and...
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The Unconscious Intermediate State | Scaling the Wall (part 1)
Introduction to the Scaling the Wall series Few people actually take the time to consider arguments for an unconscious intermediate state because as soon as those arguments appear, a wall of contrary...
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The Unconscious Intermediate State | Scaling the Wall (part 2)
The Unconscious Intermediate State Sleep is the predominant way that the Bible describes death. That leads conditionalists to assume that death is a period of un-consciousness that everyone will...
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The Unconscious Intermediate State | Scaling the Wall (part 3)
When anyone dares to suggest that sleep is an appropriate way to describe someone’s death, opponents are often quick to respond. They tend to build a wall of evidence, consisting of texts which appear...
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Rich Man and Lazarus
( This post is taken from the article Did you say sleep? ) Rich Man and Lazarus is not definitive teaching on the intermediate state Conditionalists refuse to accept the parable of the Rich Man and...
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The Spirits in Prison: I Peter 3:18-20:
Are Spirits in Prison angels or people? First we look I Peter 3:18 in an accurate and unprejudiced translation: For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, in...
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the stewardship from God
The epistles in the New Testament offer readers a picture of the gospel in missions and church context. We seldom read them that way, choosing rather to pick a verse here, a paragraph there, and try...
View Articlethe curse of immortality
One of the earliest texts that we conditionalists turn to for support of our outlandish theories about human mortality is Genesis 3:22. Some modern translations treat the text as God making a...
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Judas’ eternal sin | Christian Beliefs of hell
The three major views on final punishment of the wicked can be outlined like this: 1. traditionalism: God will justly punish unbelievers with an unending process of perpetual torment. 2. universalism:...
View ArticleMatthew 10:28 and dualism | Is the soul Immortal ?
Is the soul immortal? Did Jesus say that when people kill our bodies, our souls go marching on? Matthew 10:28 is a problem for the traditional doctrine of hell. It’s one of the verses of Scripture that...
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coaching for the mission in Jewish Galilee | the harvest is plentiful
The prophet Isaiah had predicted that the northern territories, once the possession of the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali, would have a special place in God’s messianic plan. This land of Galilee, so...
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Destroyed from God’s Presence
St Paul’s description of the judgement of God in 2 Thessalonians 1:9 is another biblical reason to give up the traditional view of divine judgement and the eternal torments of hell. Back in 2006 my...
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Cast into Hell: Gehenna in Luke’s Gospel
It feels misleading to have a title like “Gehenna in Luke’s Gospel,” which gives the impression that I’m going to look at all the instances where Luke uses the word γέεννα (gehenna). Strictly speaking...
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Watch the Videos from the Rethinking Hell Conference
Rethinking Hell Conference: Conditional Immortality and the Challenge of Universal Salvation The post Watch the Videos from the Rethinking Hell Conference appeared first on Afterlife.
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three Solomons
One of the keys to interpreting the wisdom literature of the Old Testament is to understand the authors as growing more wise and godly through the stages of their lives. The wisdom books “depict the...
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