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The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

Wouldn't A Loving God Reform Rather Than Punish?

The Cold-Case Christianity Podcast

ColdCaseChristianity.com

Christianity, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

In this blast from the past, J. Warner responds to a common objection to the nature of God: If God is all-loving, why doesn't he "reform" people rather than simply "punish" them in Hell? How would you answer a skeptic who argues a God who simply punishes his children in Hell is sadistic and vengeful, unworthy of our worship? J. Warner responds to this objection and answers listener email related to the nature of "election", and the evidence for "annihilationism."

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0:00.0

Throughout history man has marveled at the vast complexity of the universe.

0:05.0

Without a single unified voice, humanity has been left searching for answers to be unknown.

0:11.0

Now one man has the power to change that and to spread his voice

0:16.5

across the earth for all of mankind to hear one man, me.

0:22.1

Welcome to the Please Convince Me Poit. me. with the Christian worldview. We provide free information and resources at

0:35.0

W.W. Please Convince me.com.

0:39.0

Now, here is the host of our podcast Jim Wallace.

0:46.0

Glad to have you back listening here again at the Please Convince Me Podcast.

0:49.0

My name is Jay Warner Wallace.

0:51.0

Another week in May is behind us and I can't believe how fast the

0:55.1

months fly by I'm older now and or maybe it's so busy with so many different

1:00.4

writing projects and cases where I'm working there I'm not sure what it is but

1:04.0

it seems like the months are flying by here in 2011.

1:08.1

But we're in our series we've been in it for several weeks now on the nature of hell.

1:12.2

Had a lot of great response from all of you

1:14.0

about a split I'd just say some of it is positive some of it is negative in terms of

1:18.4

this controversial issue and I'm not sure that all of you even realize exactly how controversial this kind of issue is,

1:28.0

even inside the camp of Christians who have a variety of beliefs about the nature of the soul, what happens to the soul

1:36.6

after death, what is the nature of hell, is there a hell, is their conscious torment

1:40.9

in hell forever, our soul is annihilated at the point of death,

1:44.4

all kinds of issues that get raised by this type of topic.

1:50.4

And this is perhaps why someone like Rob Bell when he comes into this

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