The Narrow Path Ministries

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Yes, the rabbinic literature gives many examples of the rabbis innovating a peculiar use of the word gehenna to mean a place of either temporary or endless punishment for the wicked after the last judgment. Some authorities believe the rabbis adopted this concept (as a replacement for the sheol taug...

It has occurred to me as a possibility. Augustine is the father of Roman Catholicism, and his views on hell became RC orthodoxy, but perhaps the arguments for universal reconciliation seemed to have too much force to be cast aside entirely. The result could have been such a compromise as we find in ...

Homer wrote: As I have said before, we can not go very far in this matter without going into speculation...Words do have a definite meaning and if we insist on non-biblical formulas as required for faith in Christ I believe we lay a burden on people that our Lord did not intend they should have to b...

Paidion, Your comments about my "lemonade" analogy effectively point out either a flaw in the analogy or in the traditional trinitarian explanations. I am not sure which. My explanation may be woefully inadequate. It should be tried by scripture, and if it is found wanting, it should be abandoned as...

I do not intend to positively champion any position, though my suspicions about the inadequacy of the traditional view should be obvious enough. It does not seem possible to simply put the three views in parallel columns, as I did with Revelation. I suspect that there will be one chapter for each vi...

Suzana wrote: I have difficulty grasping the idea of being able to enjoy heaven knowing that people I may have loved are eternally suffering elsewhere. To which Homer replied: How would it be any different if they were suffering there for 10,000 years, until they repent, as some of the Universalists...

have these descriptions just been assumed as describing Satan by most readers over the ages?

Yes. I believe this is the case.

It may be true that this parable primarily (or exclusively) deals with the fates of those who were not Christians themselves, but who treated Christians in a certain manner (I am not sure of this), but the severity of the punishment remains an issue. If somebody treats me (I am a Christian) in a bad...

I am not sure.