The Doctor Is In

This is the second of two posts, much delayed, on the subject of Hell.
The first may be found here:
 
 ♦ The Death of Hell
 

On an earlier post about grace and Karma, a commenter posed this question:
I’d like to ask you a question because you strike me as an intelligent man of faith. I was taught that […]

Last week, President Obama removed virtually all restrictions on fetal stem cell research, claiming a triumph of science over “ideology.” The hope, of course, is that science may find new ways to prolong and improve our lives, now that the shackles of moral restraint, humility, and ethics have been removed. It seemed fitting, therefore, to […]

In a previous post on physician-assisted suicide, I had the following exchange with a commenter named Van:
Van:
I take it you are are against assisted-suicide?
Let me ask you this - how can we say we live in a free nation if we cannot do what we wish to our own bodies, as long as we […]

In the timeframe of history, and most surely of eternity, our lives are but a brief instant, a flicker of light in a boundless universe. Yet a divine spark dwells within us — the very essence of the God who transcends and redeems time — and thus our brief passage through life becomes eternally significant, […]

On November 22nd, at 2 pm, at the age of 90, my wife’s mother passed from this life to the next.
She died peacefully, in no pain, with her family at her side, with true dignity.
Hers was an extraordinary life, an extraordinary spirit, an extraordinary faith.
She will be greatly missed.

Today is Tony Snow’s funeral, and this meditation he wrote in his last days just came across the transom:
Blessings arrive in unexpected packages, - in my case, cancer. Those of us with potentially fatal diseases - and there are millions in America today - find ourselves in the odd position of coping with our mortality […]

Often in the sturm und drang of a world gone mad, there comes, through the chaos and insanity, some brief moment of clarity. Such times pass by quickly, and are quickly forgotten — as this brief instance might have been, courtesy of my neighboring bellweather state of Oregon: (HT: Hot Air)
Last month her lung cancer, […]

On a recent post about grace and Karma, a commenter posed a challenging question:
I’d like to ask you a question because you strike me as an intelligent man of faith. I was taught that hell is a place of eternal conscious torment, a nice euphemism for a torture chamber. Do you believe that those of […]