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Category: Hell

Essays on the topic of hell in Christianity

2. The Temperature of Hell

Posted on June 22, 2024November 29, 2024 by Dr Bob

This is the second of two posts 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…

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1. The Death of Hell

Posted on June 5, 2024November 29, 2024 by Dr Bob

After a recent essay about grace and Karma, I was asked a challenging question: 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 us who fail to accept grace will be tortured? If not, why not? Augustine and Calvin…

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