Can you lose your Salvation, hyper-calvanism and did Jesus actually preach Hell?

Ask NT Wright Anything

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🗓️ 16 March 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Today on Ask NT Wright Anything, N.T. Wright and Mike Bird tackle three major theological questions: Can Christians lose their salvation? What did Jesus actually mean when he spoke about hell? Is hyper-Calvinism a distortion of biblical teaching?Tom explores how the New Testament holds together both assurance and warning, why many modern ideas about hell owe more to medieval imagery than the Bible, and why philosophical systems about predestination often miss the central narrative of Scripture.Instead of abstract speculation about who is “in” or “out,” Tom argues that the Bible consistently tells the story of God choosing people in order to bless the world through them. Support & Subscribe👉 Support thought-provoking conversations and help keep the show going at www.premierunbelievable.com/geolink/donate💡❓Got a question for Tom? Go to ⁠⁠⁠⁠askntwright.com⁠⁠⁠👉 Refer a friend to become a subscriber → They can get 10% off by clicking hereFollow usInstagram: https://instagram.com/premierunbelievableFacebook: https://facebook.com/premierunbelievableTik Tok: https://tiktok.com/@premier.unbelievableX: https://x.com/UnbelievableFE Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Ask NT Write Anything, the program where we answer your
0:09.7	questions about Jesus, the Bible and the life of faith. I'm Mike Bird from Ridley College in
0:16.5	Melbourne, Australia, and I'm joined with... With Tom Wright from Wickliff Hall in Oxford.
0:22.6	Tom, it's great to be with you.
0:25.5	We've got some great questions, and I love these three, these questions Daisy Spencer has sent in,
0:31.8	because this is more of a personal question, more of like a diagnostic on your taste and interest. And this is what
0:39.1	Daisy asked you says, can you share your favorite book, favorite movie, favorite scripture,
0:46.2	and favorite tea? So Tom, do you have a favorite book? Maybe not a biblical book. Let's make it
0:51.6	something else. Do you have a favorite book? People have often asked me, as you look around your library, what will your favorite book be?
0:59.0	I want to go in two different directions. One would be Winnie the Pooh, of course.
1:04.2	Having been brought up on the Pooh stories and having read them to my children and grandchildren,
1:08.7	they are part of the background fabric of my life, and they're
1:12.3	beautiful, they're amazingly written. At a totally different level, as I look around my library,
1:18.3	one of my favorite books, which I love pulling off the shelf is the Oxford Classical Dictionary,
1:23.1	where the new edition, anything you want to know about the ancient classical world of Greece and Rome,
1:28.7	it's all there, well written up with good bibliographies.
1:32.7	And I always have the sense of, oh, good, I'm going to learn something more about this bit and
1:36.8	that bit and the other.
1:37.6	It all kind of joins up, but having been a classicist on all my life, it's one of my
1:43.4	ultimate go-to books, and I just always get a
1:45.8	good sense when I pull it off the shelf. So that's for book. What was the next one? Favorite movie?
1:51.1	Yeah, I've got a great movie buff. As I look back over movie going, two which stand out from the
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