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Mark 43 “And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell,[i] to the unquenchable fire.[j] 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than with two feet to be…
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Matthew 18:9 “And if your eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than with two eyes to be thrown into the hell of fire.” 1. Context of Matthew 18 The chapter isn’t about eternal torment — it’s about humility,…
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When Jesus told his disciples, “You will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes” (v. 23), he wasn’t speaking about some distant end of the world. He was commissioning them for an urgent mission in their own time. The context is the looming crisis of 70 AD,…
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When Jesus said, “I came not to call the righteous, but sinners” (Mark 2:17), he was not dividing humanity into two eternal classes. He was describing two states of awareness. The righteous are those who already trust in God’s love. They know deep in their being that they are secure in Him. They don’t lie…
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The Failure of Definitions Almost every argument between a believer and an atheist breaks down before it even begins, because the word God is left undefined. One person imagines a bearded old man in the clouds, another imagines an impersonal cosmic force, and the third imagines nothing at all. We then argue endlessly about these…
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Matthew 5:21 “You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, ‘You shall not murder,[a] and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment.’ 22 But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister[b][c] will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or…
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Christ as the Second Adam → Universal ScopeScripture: Romans 5:18–19; 1 Corinthians 15:22“Just as one trespass resulted in condemnation for all people, so also one righteous act resulted in justification and life for all people.”Logic:Adam’s sin condemned all humanity without their consent.Paul insists Christ’s work is not weaker than Adam’s — it is greater.If Adam’s…
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If God is the coming-into-being of all things — not a static being but the very happening of existence itself — then the story of Christ is not an interruption of that flow but its deepest revelation. From the beginning, God had already accounted for our failures. That’s what it means when Scripture says Christ…
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Jesus used brutal images to wake people up. When he talked about “Gehenna,” he wasn’t sketching a blueprint for an eternal torture chamber that God operates like some cosmic executioner. He was doing the opposite of abstract theology: he was using a concrete, gut-level symbol — the Valley of Hinnom — to say, “This is…
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Steven Daniel Schultz If God is love, then eternal hell is a contradiction in terms. Love by definition cannot cease to forgive, because forgiveness is the very essence of love. To posit that God could withhold forgiveness forever is to posit that, at some arbitrary cut-off point, God could cease to love us, causing Him…