Let's talk about hell.

Heaven begins in this life, hell begins in this life.

People say, oh, there is no hell.

I'm already experiencing hell. Well, you're experiencing a foretaste of that. He wants all to be saved. He'd love to be a universalist. But people simply say no to God, despite God's Herculean efforts to bring people into a relationship with himself. If God is not wrathful, then God is not loving. When God is seeing people

oppressed, when people tyrannize, people are being injured and harmed for no reason at all,

if God isn't angered by these things, then that's not a loving God. People who don't want God

in their lives, it's sort of like turning from a smegel into a golem, where they become

increasingly diminished in their own humanity.

Out of these angelic beings end up turning away from God, being in this perfect environment,

being in the presence of God and so forth. Jesus said, you are my friends, if you do what

I command you. But we wouldn't say to Jesus, you're my friend if you do what I command you.

We have to distinguish between what is descriptive and prescriptive.

The Old Testament is a very poor advertising campaign for polygamy.

Wherever you see polygamy, it's a disaster.

God could technically outlaw slavery back then. Why didn't it be?

Well, hold on a minute. It says that if you strike your servant so that he dies,

he will be avenged. That word avenged has to do with death penalty my friends

hey before you get into this one i had so much fun with this we have uh somebody in town who has

written 60 books he is a um creating master's programs on religion and philosophies so well studied.

And we go into a lot of interesting topics.

So just so let you know, there's a light parental warning on this because we talk about

some of the ethical confusion around the Old Testament and some of the things that we read

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