Category: hades

  • A Hellish Week

    This will serve as the series home for my posts on Hell. Prayer Monday: An Unanswered Prayer Quotable: Irenaeus On the Real Heaven and Hell Philosophical Responses to the Denial of Hell (Hell? Oh!) An examination of Sheol in the Old Testament (What the Sheol?) An examination of Gehenna, Hades (etc.) in the New Testament…

  • Hell? Yeah.

    I’ve touched on lots of Scripture (in both Testaments) but I needed to bring up some broad theological points. I didn’t want to make this a book, I just wanted to put up a few posts that pointed out that the Scriptures are fraught with the doctrine of hell and Christians should believe it. This…

  • Hell? No?

    At this point, naysayers are quick to say that I’m building a theology off a metaphor. He was using the term Gehenna—which is the burning the trash heap outside of Jerusalem; he was not using the term Sheol. To which the response is, obviously longer in the last post that Christ added details that had…

  • Get The Gehenna Out of Here?

    People love talking about the love of Jesus. Man, that Old Testament was brutal—the God there equally so: ordering death of people, constantly warning of impending judgment, horrid stuff. But the Jesus of the New Testament is fundamentally different: loving, warm, drawing all men to himself, eating with sinners and judging no one! Not like…

  • What the Sheol?

    One of the first points folk bring up about Hell is that if it is as horrible as people say it is, and if the way to avoid it is to believe God, then why didn’t God bring it up before the New Testament? Before Matthew or Mark (whichever was first) we don’t get an…