For many years, the month of May has symbolized mothers, motherhood, birth, and death, at least for me personally. Not only is Mother’s Day in the month of May, but I gave birth to my first living baby in May 2018 and my mother passed away May 5th 2011. Last year I pierced my ears a …
Grace
This Easter
Contemplating Easter
I have been contemplating my past and present concepts of Easter and would like to share a blogpost that simply poured out of me this week:
As a young Evangelical child, I was taught that Jesus died in my place, more-or-less as punishment for my sins. God, being perfect—and particularly …
Reconstructing the Eternality of hell
The phrase His love endures forever is repeated 26 times in Psalm 136 (NIV) alone. Other translations use phrases like his mercy endures forever (NKJV); his faithful love endures forever (NLT); his steadfast love endures forever (ESV); his lovingkindness is …
Reconstructing the Fire of hell
I tend to think there are two stages of hell—just as the fire of Gehenna and the lake of fire do not really sounds like they are doing the same things or even necessarily in the same location / realm.
The first aspect of hell deals with a person’s relationship with God—that salvation is …