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Theological Defenses of Hell: Calvinism
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Scot McKnight
The problems for hell are the issues of justice (hell can’t fit the crime of sin by finite beings) and the issue of joy (the saved can’t be eternally blissful knowing loved ones are suffering in hell). Gregory Macdonald’s book The Evangelical Universalist next describes how some theologians have responded to these problems, and he examines…
Hell as the Problem for Christians
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Scot McKnight
The single-most important problem for the logical coherence of the Christian belief in God is what Christians have believed about hell — that God will punish humans endlessly for their sins. We are approaching this topic through Gregory Macdonald’s book The Evangelical Universalist . Big question: How do you account for the justice problem? How…
Let’s Get “Universalism” Straight
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Scot McKnight
Today I’d like to begin blogging through Gregory Macdonald’s book The Evangelical Universalist . The first order of business, which is his too, is to get this term “universalism” straight and I want to attach adjectives to his descriptions. After reading Parry’s definition of “Christian universalism,” do you think it can be squared with the…
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