This is going to be a contentious post, and you should be warned that a lot of sacred cows are in danger of their lives 😉 It’s about who will be saved; who will be in Heaven. Life after death. Just a fairly superficial look at a very deep subject, but paradoxically, one that’s probably … Continue reading Life after Death – A Contentious Post on Decision Points
I’m sorry to say, but, in general, Fundamentalist Evangelical Christianity loves to be exclusive. Black and white thinking: saved or unsaved; in or out; blessed or cursed. We are the Chosen Ones; everyone else is wrong to some degree, and we are the only ones who have most of it right at least. In the … Continue reading Except by Me
[Author’s Note: This essay is about a verse in the ‘Letter to the Hebrews’. No-one is certain who wrote that Epistle, but for the sake of convenience I will here refer to the writer using the masculine pronouns ‘he/him’ and as the ‘writer’ rather than presuming either a name or a gender] [1] I once … Continue reading That Other ‘Dratted Verse’…
Today I am going to let you into the Church’s big secret on tithing. I’m going to share with you a Scripture that you will never hear preached on from any pulpit you can think of. But first, a bit of background. Like quite a few other doctrines*, the doctrine of ‘Tithing’ is a contentious … Continue reading The Sermon You Will Never Hear!
Hi there I don’t know your name, but it was lovely to have that interesting and gentle conversation with you yesterday, despite our having only just met, at Sainsbury’s in Bridgwater in Somerset. Hearing a lady whistling a Vineyard song from the 1980s was so unusual, I just had to come over and say something! … Continue reading A Personal Message to Someone I Met
“Truth does not compromise Love, and truth offered forcibly, out of harmony with Unconditional Love, is no longer truth.” – ‘Sarah’ “The same people who tell you that one sin is exactly as bad as any other sin, in God’s sight, also use Hitler as an example of a really evil person. Think about it. … Continue reading Further Quotes
I’ve said before that I think that Hell was invented by the Church in order to keep people in line. Or, at least, the idea of ‘eternal conscious torment’, as espoused by most Evangelical Christians who maybe haven’t really thought about it all that deeply. To be fair, I think that latter statement is true; … Continue reading Hell is a Control Tactic
Here’s a great little piece by a friend of mine, who prefers to remain anonymous. It might be useful to read this in conjunction with two of my other articles, ‘Why be a Christian?’ and ‘Life after Death: A Contentious Post on Decision Points‘. “Personal Response” We must take care not to confuse what is … Continue reading Personal Response
I’m not sure that people who say they believe in Hell really believe it. In fact, I think that most believers don’t really think much about Hell at all. And in some ways that’s absolutely right; if a believer perceives that he has been ‘saved from Hell’, then why even think about it? But as … Continue reading My Hell Resource Page
“Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ” 2Cor10:5 (KJV) I’ve recently identified the driving force behind my contentious blog posts, my forum postings (usually contesting posts by religious hard-liners) and my attitudes in general towards things … Continue reading Casting Down the Imaginations