[Teófilo]

Blunders. Typos. Mine.

[Teófilo]

PING!

[InvisibleChurch]

Scholars: Heaven, hell, meaningless to most Americans

Well, I think that's usually the case until it's too late.

[GSlob]

"...then what's the best way to think of heaven?"
Elysium, n. An imaginary delightful country which the ancients foolishly believed to be inhabited by the spirits of the good. This ridiculous and mischievous fable was swept from the face of the earth by the early Christians - may their souls be happy in Heaven!
Ambrose Bierce

[Gamecock]

***Foggy notions of Heaven and Hell--and Purgatory--are not exclusive of Protestant fuzzy thinking.***

The god* of most Americans is a somewhat senile grandfather who likes to hand out gifts and sees sin as more of a mistake than an affront to his holiness. There is no room for the God of Abraham, Jacob, and Issac in the church of easy believism.

*That's right, with a little g.

[Uri’el-2012]

Those responsible for preaching must renew their preaching
by drinking in the waters of the original proclamation of the Apostles.
Only then will we be able to rescue the sense of our sinfulness and with it,
the right understanding of the realities of Death, Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory.

I would amend that from "the Apostles" to Y'shua
( YHvH is our salvation) and following G-d's Law as Y'shua us commanded in

John 14:15 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments.

b'shem Y'shua