Part 1 of our first-ever LIVE podcast recording gets blazing hot as we discuss everyone’s favorite topic, hell! Plus, live theme song sing-along by Barrett Johnson. Our Heretic of the Week is Saint Nicholas.

Show Notes

  • 00:25 – Introduction and word from show sponsor Unfundamentalists.
  • 05:05 – Introduction to Heretic of the week, St. Nicholas. Council of Nicea.
  • 08:38 – Doctrine of hell. Not a developed doctrine of the afterlife in Judaism.
  • 09:50 – Sheol, the abode of the dead.
  • 12:14 – The three predominant views of hell or the afterlife in Christianity. Eternal suffering (ECT), annihilationism, and universalism.
  • 17:06 – Clergy and laity divide, the doctrine of original sin, the Bible and hell. The human suffering caused by these doctrines.
  • 20:10 – Control and fear in the church.
  • 22:33 – Doctrine of eternal suffering. No mention of hell in the Old Testament.
  • 26:31 – Hell on earth and the remedy.
  • 27:13 – Near-death experiences (NDE’s). The kingdom of heaven and hell in the present.
  • 29:15 – The gospel for now instead of after we die. The kingdom of God within us.
  • 30:10 – Resurrection is reality.
  • 31:08 – Gehenna. Jesus prophesying AD 70. Enoch tradition in Judaism. Jeremiah tradition of hell being here and now.
  • 33:42 – Justice. Penal substitutionary atonement.
  • 34:54 – Sowing and reaping. Karma.
  • 37:37 – Jesus on the end of the Jewish age in AD 70. Matthew 25 sheep and baby goats.
  • 42:35 – Chastisement in love. Correction for repentance (change of mind).
  • 48:01 – Quantum science and no separation. Christ nature and source of life.
  • 51:35 – Heaven on earth and the reality of love.
  • 53:40 – Separation from God is impossible.
  • 54:39 – Augustine and eternal conscious torment.
  • 56:20 – Verse, “the road is wide for destruction.”
  • 59:06 – Escapist mentalities. The kingdom of God is here and now.
  • 1:00:32 – Dispensationalism and self-fulfilling prophesy. John Nelson Darby.
  • 1:02:22 – Fear and love as opposites.
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