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Post by Josh on Mar 21, 2009 22:00:32 GMT -8
So, I just happened to read through Steve Gregg's autobiographical essay on his website. It was really great to get a more fully fledged version of his journey. Fascinating story- especially the convergence of such disparate influences, events, and themes. Chris and Robin, I presume you've read it? It's worth a read even if you don't know who Steve Gregg is, plus I'm hoping that he's going to be speaking at our church in the near future! Here's the link: www.thenarrowpath.com/testimony.htm
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Post by Josh on Mar 31, 2009 17:34:47 GMT -8
Rodgertutt, Are you familiar with bible teacher/ author/ radio personality Steve Gregg and his views on the topic of the afterlife? He's currently preparing a book that explores different views of hell. Incidentally, he's going to be speaking at our church next month!
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Post by rodgertutt on Apr 16, 2009 19:04:33 GMT -8
Rodgertutt, Are you familiar with bible teacher/ author/ radio personality Steve Gregg and his views on the topic of the afterlife? He's currently preparing a book that explores different views of hell. Incidentally, he's going to be speaking at our church next month! Quote from Steve Gregg's link. "My most recent theological shift seems to be concerning the nature and purpose of “hell.” As long ago as the late eighties, I became aware that two of my most-admired evangelical leaders, John R.W. Stott and Clark Pinnock, had taken the surprising position that hell is a place of annihilation, not eternal torment. I could not immediately accept this (being fundamentally conservative by temperament), but it lodged in my mind. Somewhere along the way, I also heard that certain evangelical Christians, like Hannah Whitall Smith and George MacDonald, were Christian Universalists. This bothered me, somewhat, but I had become much more open-minded to letting others reach their own conclusions, by now, and was not as greatly alarmed as I would have been a decade earlier. It still seemed to me, however, that the safest position to take is the traditional view of a hell of eternal torment (might as well prepare people for the worst possibility!). I found it fairly easy to remain dispassionate on the subject while presenting all three options to callers on my radio program, but I still felt that the evidence for the three views was about equally distributed, allowing me to retain my default position (the traditional view) in good conscience. In the last few years, however, I have become less and less impressed with the nature of the biblical evidence for the traditional view, and more concerned about its implications with reference to the character of God. Today, I have been thoroughly moved from my former confidence in the view of endless torment. I am currently in the process of deciding between the two options—both of which seem to be superior, in terms of biblical evidence, to the traditional view, though neither provides a thorough refutation of the other." End quote COMMENT BY RODGER TUTTWhy some of us believe the Bible teaches universal salvation rather than annihilation. ETERNAL DEATH ANNIHILATION? www.tentmaker.org/books/EternalDeath.html Or THE DOCTRINE OF ANNIHILATION hell-fact-or-fable.com/destruction3.html Or WILL UNBELIEVERS BE ANNIHILATED - chapter three (If necessary copy and paste the following url into your browser address bar) www.lighthouselibrary.com/read.php?sel=2586&searchfor=||KNOCH, ADOLPH E||&type=&what=author
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