The Truth Project
Examines biblical, historical, and theological ideas associated with hell, final judgment, punishment, exclusion, and restoration.
“I can tell you with certainty that the correct view of God’s solution [to the problem of sin], if discovered, would tell you more about the nature and character of God than would most other theological inquiries.”
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...
The matter has been well distilled by Robert K. Johnson, professor of theology and culture at Fuller Theological Seminary: “How can I formulate a biblically informed perspective on hell ‘that is morally consistent with the character of God...
Edessa/Nisibis (Eastern Syriac) — Mystical Restoration Isaac of Nineveh, Ephrem the Syrian Hopeful theology that saw judgment as a fire of divine love. > “Hell is the scourge of the love of God.” — Isaac of Nineveh, Homily 27
The very pit itself is a place of torments and of chastisement, but is not eternal. It was made that it might be a medicine and help to those who sin. Sacred are the stripes which are medicine to those who have sinned. “Therefore we do not...
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Video Clip 15min Hell is either a Created Place, therefore is in Christ, because everything created is in Him, therefore there is no separation from HimORIt is an Uncreated Place, and as the only thing that is uncreated is God Himself, it...
Isa 46:9; Rev 1:18
Why has the good news been perverted so much? The message of hell has affected us because... 1. It contradicts the unending, unfailing love of the Father. It perverts the message with the idea that we have to love Him before He will love...
Matthew 7:11; Eph. 4:6; Acts 17:28; James 2:13; Psalm 30:5; Luke 2:10
Hell. Horrifying, agonizing – hopeless. The mere mention of it creates unease. Even Christians who believe that their faith in Christ will exempt them from hell have close friends and family whom they fear will end up there, or have...
2 Corinthians 5:10; 1 Peter 1:17; Matthew 16:27; Romans 2:16; Luke 12:47; 1 Corinthians 3:13-15; Exodus 2:1-11; Acts 7:20-23
“To hell with it,” lets see what the Bible has to say regarding…hell! 😉 Judgment in the After LifeThe first issue that needs to be addressed concerns the Old Testament’s complete silence about there being a very serious and horrifying...
Genesis 24:7; Job 17:16; Psalm 89:48; Isaiah 14:9; Isaiah 28:15; Ezekiel 31:17; Psalm 116:3; Isaiah 38:18
Having seen that the Old Testament is quite silent regarding our modern concept of hell, there yet remains something that I need to clarify. In this series on Hell it is not my intention to argue or prove the non-existence of hell, but...
Daniel 12:12; Psalm 9:17; Psalm 89:48; Ecclesiastes 9:2; Genesis 37:35; Genesis 42:38; Genesis 44:29; Psalm 30:3
The last blog showed us that Sheol is a place where the dead abide. Everyone who dies goes there and they abide there in a kind of sleep state, where all will await a resurrection or an awakening from the dead (Daniel 12:12). Having seen...
1 Corinthians 13:9; Matthew 13:24-30; Matthew 4:18; Mark 1:16; Luke 12:42-48; Luke 13:22-30; Matthew 25:1-13; 2 Corinthians 11:2
In the last blog we looked at a few of the references to “weeping and gnashing of teeth” that those who are “cast into the outer darkness” would suffer. We saw that the warning was not towards the godless, but those that follow God, His...
Acts 2:27-31; Acts 24:15; 1 Corinthians 15:55; Mark 9:49; Psalm 30:5; James 2:13; Hebrews 12:11
We have now looked at how almost every instance of what we tend to presume is a reference to “hell” in the New Testament is really referring to something else. Gehenna refers to the city dump which was used as a warning of national...
Acts 7:22; Ephesians 6:17; Hebrews 4:12; Revelation 1:16; Revelation 19:5; Titus 1:16; Matthew 7:15; Revelation 2:2
If you have, perchance, managed to suffer through all the blogs in this series on hell, then I would like to applaud you; for you must have an incredibly high tolerance for pain! 😉 But in all seriousness, if you have read each blog and...
1 Corinthians 1:30; Ephesians 5:26; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; 1 Peter 1:2; Hebrews 11:1; 1 Corinthians 3:13-15; 2 Peter 3:9-13
In the previous blog we saw that the nature of fire is the Law and the purpose of this fire is to discipline and correct us, refining us until we are righteous and holy – as God is. To clarify, we are actually imputed holiness and...
Psalm 16:10; Revelation 20:14; Jeremiah 7:31; Matthew 5:30; 2 Peter 2:4
WORD #1: SHEOL (Hebrew – Old Testament)Used 65 times in the Hebrew BibleTranslated in the KJV as: hell (31x), grave (31x), pit (3x)What Is Sheol?Sheol simply means: the realm of the dead — the grave, death, or the unseen place.It was not a...
Video 1 hr 58 minAnd if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into HELL, into the FIRE that shall never be quenched.ORIf your hand causes you to sin, cut...
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...
Tertullian, AugustineThis view became dominant only after the 5th century under imperial pressure.Tertullian:> “How I shall laugh, how I shall rejoice, to see kings... liquefying in fiercer fire...” — De Spectaculis, Ch. 30This is not the...
Dr. Ken Vincent, retired psychology professor from Houston Community College, and author of over one hundred books in the fields of psychology and religion, notes: The first person to write about “eternal hell” was the Latin (West) North...
By far, the main person responsible for making hell eternal in the Western Church was St. Augustine (354–430 CE). Augustine…was made Bishop of Hippo in North Africa. He did not know Greek, had tried to study it, but stated that he hated...
The advocacy of hell came primarily on the scene with Augustine: In no other respect did Augustine differ more widely from Origen and the Alexandrians [Eastern Church] than in his intolerant spirit. Even Tertullian conceded to all the...
Matthew 25:46; Mark 9:43-48; Isaiah 66:24; Luke 16:19-31; Luke 16:23; Revelation 14:10-11; Revelation 20:10; Hebrews 12:29
YOU KNOW THAT “HELL” THE RELIGIOUS CHURCH TAUGHT YOU ALL YOUR LIFE?Jesus Never Taught That Hell in All of Scripture INTRODUCTION: SMOKE AND FEAR — HOW RELIGION TURNED THE GOSPEL INTO A FIREPITFor centuries, the Church has preached a gospel...
1 Corinthians 3:11-15; Romans 5:17; 1 Cor. 3:11-15; 1 Tim. 2:1-6; Eph. 1:10; Phil. 2:9-11; Col. 1:20; Heb. 2:9
The following is from Richard Murray, a great theologian of our time. Here is a quick historical survey of the EARLY CHURCH regarding their surprising beliefs about HELL: THE FIRST 500 YEARS: In the first five centuries there were six...
Mark 7:13; Acts 3:21
SECTION 5: THE PAGAN ORIGINS OF ETERNAL TORMENT — HOW HELL ENTERED THE CHURCH“The doctrines of men have made the Word of God of none effect.” — Mark 7:13If eternal conscious torment is not what the original languages teach...And if Jesus...
1 Tim. 4:10; Rom. 5:18; Col. 1:20; 1 Cor. 15:22-28; John 12:32; Rev. 21:5
Setting the Record Straight on Hell, Judgment, and the Early Church (For the pastor who told me to “do more research”)The other day, a pastor told me I needed to “do my research”—because, according to him, only one early church school...
“The doctrine of eternal torment is the most absurd theological proposition ever uttered.”— That All Shall Be Saved