830: 3 Christian Views of Hell: Part 1
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🗓️ 30 November 2020
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Summary
Most people assume that “hell” means “eternal conscious torment forever and ever.” But the doctrine of hell has actually been widely disputed throughout church history. There are actually three quite different understandings of hell that have been believed and taught in the historic, orthodox Christian church: eternal conscious torment, annihilation, and ultimate reconciliation.
In this first (of two) videos on hell, I lay out these three different understandings of hell. I try to do so in an unbiased way so that you can wrestle with each view without letting my rhetoric get in the way. In the next video, I’ll show why I believe in the view of hell that I do.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, friends. Welcome back to another episode of theology in the raw for today. And next week, |
| 0:05.1 | I'm going to be doing a two-part series on the doctrine of hell in this podcast. I'm going to be |
| 0:10.6 | talking about three Christian views of hell. That's right, folks. There are three views of hell that |
| 0:17.7 | have existed in historic Orthodox Christianity. I'm going to talk about what those three are in |
| 0:23.5 | this episode. In next week's episode, I'm going to talk about which view of hell, which most of you |
| 0:29.2 | already know which one it is, which view of hell that I have come to embrace and why. It's |
| 0:35.6 | important to know that these podcasts were originally video-based sermons that I preached at |
| 0:44.5 | Valley Christian Church in Dublin, California. So they are designed primarily for video. |
| 0:49.6 | And I have uploaded those videos on my YouTube channel. You can go to press and sprinkle and |
| 0:54.4 | see the YouTube version of this. And that's important because I actually have created some pretty |
| 0:59.6 | in-depth detailed kind of pretty PowerPoint or keynote slides to go along with it. Now that's |
| 1:07.3 | important because I do a lot of interaction with the text in these two episodes. And so if you |
| 1:14.6 | actually want to see how I interact with the text, if you want to read the various passages that |
| 1:18.8 | we're working through and even see kind of an outline, a working outline, you know, of what I'm |
| 1:23.7 | talking about, then it might be helpful to go to my YouTube channel and actually watch this episode |
| 1:29.2 | and also the next episode next week. If you'd like to support the show, you can go to patreon.com |
| 1:33.7 | forward slash theology and eros. Support the show for as little as five bucks a month. The work I'm |
| 1:37.8 | doing here has been encouraging, helpful, or even challenging. Then please consider supporting the |
| 1:43.1 | show. Also, as you may have heard, I do have a book coming out on February 1st. It's titled |
| 1:48.6 | Embodied Transgender Identities of the Church and what the Bible has to say. It's a thorough analysis |
| 1:54.9 | of both the relational and also the theological scientific philosophical aspects of the broader |
| 2:03.1 | transgender conversation. And if you're interested at all in getting a Christian perspective |
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