18 September 2015 A.D. 4 Truths About Hell
18 September 2015 A.D. 4 Truths About Hell Ascol, Tom. “4 Truths About Hell.” Ligonier Ministries. 18 Sept 2015. http://www.ligonier.org/blog/4-truths-about-hell/ . Accessed 18 Sept 2014. 4 Truths About Hell from Tom Ascol Sep 18, 2015 “ There is one very serious defect to my mind in Christ’s moral character, and that is that He believed in hell.” So wrote the agnostic British philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1967. The idea of eternal punishment for sin, he further notes, is “a doctrine that put cruelty in the world and gave the world generations of cruel torture.” His views are at least more consistent than religious philosopher John Hick, who refers to hell as a “grim fantasy” that is not only “morally revolting” but also “a serious perversion of the Christian Gospel.” Worse yet was theologian Clark Pinnock who, despite having regarded himself as an evangelical, dismissed hell with a rhetorical question: “How can one imagine for a moment that the ...