Seems that the previous post, “Four Views on Hell,” sparked the synapses in Brett’s brain and he dug out a paper he wrote a while back on the very subject. Below you will find his research on Gehenna. Please note that the Greek references are messed up (due to MS and Wordpress functionality) and there was no easy way to fix them. ~Micah Holtzinger
Introduction
As Dante and Virgil continue their famed journey into the seventh circle, Dante vividly describes the torments of hell by stating, “So the eternal burning was coming down, and the sand caught fire, like tinder beneath the flint, to double the suffering.”[1] Throughout Christendom, descriptions such Continue reading ‘More On Hell’
I recently read Four Views on Hell and reviewed it for school. I have posted the review below. This is an interesting book and useful for almost anyone. Read below…
I just started a new book by John Piper. At least it’s new to me. It’s called “Finally Alive.” There is a paragraph in the preface that is just too good not to share. John laments how the term “born again” is used by groups like Barna Group or in books like “The Scandle of the Evangelical Conscience: Why Are Christians Living Just Like The Rest of the World” , by Ron Sider.
“…we must not only try to evaluate the accuracy of the emerging church’s cultural analysis, but also the extent to which its proposals spring from, or can at least be squared with, the Scriptures. To put the matter differently: Is there at least some danger that what is being advocated is not so much a new kind of Christian in a new emerging church, but a church that is so submerging itself in the culture that it risks hopeless compromise?” ~ D. A. Carson, “Becoming Conversant With The Emerging Church” pg.45
…preaching that aims to produce true evangelical remorse and contrition must devote itself to making God and His holiness look alluringly attractive and satisfying, so that, by the grace of regeneration and illumination, people will come to love it so much that they feel intense remorse over falling short of it.” ~ John Piper, “
Prophecy is God’s signature in the Bible. It speaks clearly to His sovereignty, especially in the affairs of man. One thing we know in this respect, is that prophecy tells us that history is going somewhere and that somewhere is the fulfillment of God’s purposes. History is not out of control and nothing has taken God by surprise, nor have any of the affairs of men thwarted in any respect God’s determined plan.
According to Scripture, the moral law is a revelation of the character of God. It therefore exposes sin (
Martin Luther, following the Diet of Worms in April 1521 came to the conclusion that the central issue that he had with Rome was the doctrine of ”sola fide” – faith alone. This is the instrumental cause or the means by which justification comes to the believer. So, for Luther the doctrine of justification by faith alone was the preeminent doctrine on which the whole of the Gospel stood.
The post-modernist takes the position that when a person speaks from conviction, especially the conviction that is born from the Scriptures he is arrogant. But this kind of thinking is nothing new and G. K. Chesterton saw it years ago when he commented;
Thursday evening Dr. Albert Mohler preached. His text was the above passage. He encouraged us to remember that as Jesus preached with inherent authority we are to preach with the authority of the Scriptures. To paraphrase, he lamented that all too many pulpits today preach with commas and question marks and not with periods and exclamation points! I could not agree more.
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