In Jesus the Messiah, we “participate in the divine nature” (2 Peter 1:4), which is what God intended for us from the very beginning when h...

More thoughts culled from my random file. About divine love, relationship with God and new life in Christ. Some have come to me in moments ...

It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell [ Gehenna ], where “the worms th...

Last time, we looked at the Greek word Hades , which is usually translated as “hell” in most English versions. It refers to the “ realm...

Hell, as popularly conceived, has long been a sort of kitchen drawer, a jumble of assorted ideas stuffed into one handy catch-all. Ther...

The works I do in my Father’s name testify about me, but you do not believe because you are not my sheep. My sheep listen to my voice; I kno...

On my Facebook page the other day, I posted a quote by George McDonald: “In low theologies, hell is invariably the deepest truth, and t...

Holiness is set-apartness . God’s set-apartness is his uniqueness. He is not merely a being, not even the greatest of all beings. He i...

Over the years, and especially with the advent of social media, I have come to realize that no matter what I say, there is always going to ...

The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be t...

More thoughts culled from my random file. About divine love, relationship with God and new life in Christ. Some have come to me in moments ...

Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not fou...

The view that hell is eternal conscious torment creates several problems in regard to divine justice. One is that, in the ECT version o...

The meaning of a word is not necessarily determined by its etymology but by how it is used. So, though metanoia , the Greek word translated...

Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. (Ro...

Then they will go away to eternal punishment , but the righteous to eternal life. (Matthew 25:46) These shall be punished with everlasting...

Historically, there have been three main views in the Church concerning hell. All three of them express a belief in hell and claim scri...