Gathers entries that surface tensions between inherited beliefs, Scripture, conscience, and the revealed character of God in Jesus.
PICK TWO, REJECT ONE (You can't believe all 3) 1. It is God’s redemptive purpose for the world (and therefore His will) to reconcile all sinners to Himself. 2. It is within God’s power to achieve His redemptive purpose for the world. 3...
The Doctrine of Eternal Conscious Torment, of necessity means that... Satan wins and Jesus loses – as 95% of the people He came to save will be lost to Him. His rescue mission was a failure. Jesus looks at the fruit of the travail of His...
Thus, to deny the absolute universality of Christ’s redeeming sway, as destined to embrace all souls and all things whatsoever, seems no less than to withdraw from the New Testament an essential and vital part of its teaching. For here we...
Col 2:13
Something can’t be paid for and forgiven simultaneously. Your sins are either forgiven or your sins were paid for. Forgiveness is given, freedom is paid for. The cross was not about forgiveness, it was about payment for freedom from sin...
Luke 15:17; Rom. 2:4
When we preach, on the one hand, that God loves sinners and sent Jesus to die for them, and, on the other, that He is also the merciless Tormentor of all who would have the effrontery to slight Him, this must sound, to all but the...