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Pausing this book now to learn some things about hell!

Full disclosure: I skipped two sections (about 40 pages) to get here. I’m rushing through this book so I can answer my barber about what baptists think about heaven

I skipped the section talking about heaven in the general epistles (hebrews, James, Peters, Jude) as those seemed to have less to say on the subject.

I skipped a section called Pictures of Heaven because it seemed redundant.

First section discusses heaven in the Old Testament. Heaven is shown as a place of power, separate from earth, but grace is present. This chapter did not discuss an OT view of an “afterlife”, which I was hoping for because it sometimes seems that OT authors don’t have much of a concept of the afterlife.