While part of what you said is quite true, I would contend that Jesus didn't have a great sense of humor, since it is from what Jesus supposedly said that the
whole doctrine of hell came about, as well as some ther things he said that I would contend is fairly bad advice.
Sam Hailes analyses the media's recent focus on four Christian leaders who have questioned the traditional doctrine of hell
«There is no doctrine which I would more willingly remove from Christianity than
the doctrine of hell, if it lay in my power.
It just so happens that no subgroups of humanity are more ingrained with
the doctrine of hell than conservative Muslims and conservative Christians.
pah I'm falling away — I'm a liberal who's been chameleoned into a conservative and doesn't want to give up on God, but hates
the doctrine of Hell (and knows it's a sin)..
Keller ties a little bow on that section of the message saying that
the doctrine of hell «can be used to create a pretext for cruelty,» but that the «biblical doctrine of hell» is that Jesus came «not to bring judgment but to bear judgment and to go to hell for his enemies.»
At the same conference Father Michael F. Hull of New York contended that Balthasar's theory is «tantamount to a rejection of
the doctrine of hell and a denial of man's free will.»
How is it that people claiming to be Christians are not sure about something as basic and entrenched in our belief system as
the doctrine of hell?
I have been studying
the doctrine of hell recently, and by coincidence, ran across the following video.
The doctrine of hell did make me very afraid, because I was still in my sin.
I firmly believe in
the doctrine of Hell, i.e..