Category: Theology

What [the] Hell?

Ed Christian, Professor of English at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, shows how words about Hell and eternal punishment are misunderstood. This presentation was given at an Evangelical Theological Society annual conference in 2001. The topic for the conference was Defining…

The Monster God of Calvinism

Christians get into endless debates about free will, predestination, and once-saved-always-saved, get lost in the complexity of it all, and don’t even see the 800 pound gorilla sitting in the room. I feel a need to expose one of the…

Water Baptism is Not Commanded

Alright, let’s put this water baptism baby to rest. Water baptism was a Jewish tradition. Nothing more, nothing less. For some it was a messianic initiation rite they would do to publicly proclaim their allegiance to a messiah, of which…

Jesus Used Fiction to Teach Truth

Any preacher teaching spiritual truths can find within his own popular culture things that the people can relate to. Preachers do this every Sunday when they…use the mythology of [their] day… We never accuse our pastors of being liars for…