Theological Arguments Against Eternal Punishment

[Originally published on Helium and on blog, February and March 2009 respectively] What happens when you die? Death and justice are perhaps the two largest reasons for the existence of religion. Just about all religions teach a system of rewards and punishments that occurs after you die.

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Is Hell a Real Place? A Metaphor? A Myth?

[Originally published on Helium] Do you realize how much of Christianity’s teachings are not even found in the Bible? Do you realize how much most churches have been influenced by misquotes, mistranslations and even intentionally taking verses completely out of context? Take the doctrine of Hell, for example. Is it…

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Can you get to Heaven by being Good?

No, but not for the reasons you’ve probably been told! Photo Credit, David Niblack, Imagebase.net [Originally published on Helium 02-10-2009] Can you get to Heaven by being good? Can you get to Heaven at all? What is the reward of the saved? What does the Bible say? You may be surprised to…

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When Did Jesus Ascend To Heaven?

And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS. And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. But the other answering rebuked him, saying,…

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