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Hearers of many things and will have learned nothing…

July 24th, 2005 @ 8:42 am by Rich | | No Comments »
Filed under: Bible and Theology

[image] I stumbled across an interesting passage from Plato's Phaedrus (translated by Benjamin Jowett) the other day. (Or, check out the published translation.) It seemed relevant to me as I am wrapping up my research on Heaven & Hell in preparation for my presentation at church this coming Wednesday.

I lean on the Internet quite a bit as I do research. And beside me at this moment I have no less than 16 books measuring two feet in height that I have also leaned on — or should I say they have leaned on me? Yet through it all I am painfully aware that my knowldge of either Heaven or Hell (I capitalize the terms for I think of them as real places) is bound up

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Do Heaven and Hell exist?

June 20th, 2005 @ 9:00 pm by Rich | | 1 Comment »
Filed under: Bible and Theology, Pentecostal, Religion, Talking Points

I'll be teaching a class this next month. I'm deep in the middle of research for it now.

Believe or Not?
Do you believe everything you read...or not? When it comes to the claims of the Bible you have to ask yourself if you believe it...or not? Can you believe what the Bible says about the creation of the universe, heaven, hell and angels? This four part series seeks the answers to these difficult questions.

Creation...Myth or Fact? How Reliable is the Bible? Is There Really a Heaven or Hell? Do Angels Exist?

I'm working on the "Heaven or Hell" topic. To my surprise, there's a lot more debate going on about Hell than I ever suspected.

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