Tag Archives: Hell
Finding Hell in the Oddest of Places
Hell. It isn’t a doctrine we rush to discuss, and that is a good thing – we ought to fear Hell, and we ought to weigh our words carefully. Without a serious understanding of Hell we risk undermining the doctrine of the cross, the wrath of God, the magnanimity of grace and the import of our forgiveness.This ‘quick thought’, however, is not a précis on the doctrine of Hell, nor is it primarily an apologetic defence of the doctrine of Hell; it is, rather an observation based the defence of a form of eternal punishment found in the secular, scientific community.
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Posted in Quick Thoughts, Science and Christianity
Tagged Christianity and Science, Hades, Hell, Sin
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Secularism and the Nature of Evil
Each generation has a different nightmare and each nightmare reveals something about that generation. Giant ants and radioactive dinosaurs made audiences scream in the 1950s; a few decades later,The Beast from 20000 Fathoms and Them would seem quaintly comical. Radioactive monstrosities would be replaced by invincible serial killers in the 1980s; psychopaths in Halloween masks would later be parodied by the Scream franchise.
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Posted in Christian Theology, Quick Thoughts
Tagged Can We Be Good Without God, Good and Evil, Halloween, Hell, Horror, MR James, Myths of Secularism, Popologetics, Secularism, Sin, The Beast from 20000 Fathoms!
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