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J. I. Packer: Universalism represents a kind of paternalism in which each person is assured that whatever final destiny they anticipate, hopefully or fearfully, and whatever their present pattern of life, religious or not, moral or not, the Christian’s Christ-centered salvation will be theirs—whether or not they want such a salvation.
— Mar 09, 2021 04:27PM
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Timothy Keller: It’s tempting to avoid such topics [as hell or the problem of suffering and evil] in our preaching. But neglecting unpleasant doctrines of the historic faith will often bring about counterintuitive consequences. There is an ecological balance to scriptural truth that we cannot risk disturbing.
— Mar 12, 2021 04:24PM
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Packer: Because everyone, including ourselves, deserves eternal punishment in hell, the supreme mystery is that God should save anyone. It is a wonder. Knowing these things must keep God’s people in endless praise, both here and hereafter.
— Mar 11, 2021 03:45PM
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Packer: To recognize the reality of eternal punishment is, to be sure, awesome, jolting, and traumatic, but surely there is no room for confusion that this was exactly what Jesus and his apostles wanted their hearers to recognize.
— Mar 10, 2021 04:59PM
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Peterson: With Scripture we confess that God stands behind the destiny of every human being. But with Scripture we also confess that he does so differently with the saved and the unsaved.
— Mar 02, 2021 04:13PM
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Robert A. Peterson: While the Son is indeed Savior of the world, according to more than a dozen passages of Scripture he is also the Judge. In addition, the unity of the Godhead demands that we also see the Holy Spirit at work in judgment. Only by viewing the last judgment from a Trinitarian perspective will we gain a proper vision.
— Mar 01, 2021 04:26PM
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Morgan: God’s final sentence does not begin with banishment, continue with a period of punishment, and end with destruction, as some have suggested. Scripture offers no such order. Rather the three pictures offer multiple vantage points on a unified experience.
— Feb 28, 2021 04:28PM
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Christopher W. Morgan: God judges everyone — those whom the world deems important, those whom the world never notices, and everyone in between.
— Feb 26, 2021 04:26PM
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Robert Yarbrough, quoting Scot McKnight: “What Christians have believed about hell has been constructed almost entirely out of” what Jesus teaches in the Gospels. If his words about hell are set aside, then nearly all of his teachings must be neutralized.”
— Feb 25, 2021 04:36PM
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Albert Mohler: As the church has often been reminded, no doctrine stands alone. Take away hell, and the entire shape of Christian theology may be altered.
Hell is not a theological trifle, but rather an essential part of the biblical story about life, God, and the humanity he created in his image.
— Feb 24, 2021 04:30PM
Hell is not a theological trifle, but rather an essential part of the biblical story about life, God, and the humanity he created in his image.
