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Is Hell Dead?
Time ^ | Thursday, Apr. 14, 2011 | Jon Meacham

Posted on 04/14/2011 1:37:12 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch

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Particularly galling to conservative Christian critics God is that Love Wins is not an attack from outside the walls of the Evangelical Holy City but a mutiny from within — a rebellion led by a charismatic, popular and savvy pastor Senior Cherubim with a following.

"There is nothing new under the sun...," this is just more of the old 'you don't need God; you can create your own salvation' message that goes all the way back to the Tower of Babel, and beyond.

1 posted on 04/14/2011 1:37:15 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch
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To: ApplegateRanch

I remember when Time used to be a news magazine. I even remember when Time was a respected new magazine. That really dates me!


2 posted on 04/14/2011 1:39:33 PM PDT by all the best
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To: ApplegateRanch

Hell = Obama regime


3 posted on 04/14/2011 1:43:47 PM PDT by max americana ( NF)
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"every person who ever lived" could have a place in heaven,

This silly statement doesn't have much to do with Christianity. Its simply the application of the modern American culture of "getting benefits with no effort and no consequences for choices in life." Religious doctrine doesn't matter--everyone can go to Heaven. Just like everyone can retire on a full pension courtesy of the "rich" and get a dream house without paying their mortgage courtesy of those rich banks. Its the sin of sloth run wild.

4 posted on 04/14/2011 1:44:06 PM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("The time will come when Winter will ask you what you were doing all Summer" -- Henry Clay)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Dear Screwtape,

You’ve been working hard and it turns out it doesn’t matter.

Uncle Wormwood.


5 posted on 04/14/2011 1:46:26 PM PDT by SarahPalin2012
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To: all the best

Same here.

Also, Christian Science Monitor, but that’s a different story for a different day.


6 posted on 04/14/2011 1:47:45 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: max americana

He’s just an advertisement for it...


7 posted on 04/14/2011 1:50:08 PM PDT by epluribus_2
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To: ApplegateRanch
That would be a "pelosi fact"...You'll have to go there to find out type of thing.
8 posted on 04/14/2011 1:54:41 PM PDT by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

It is en entitlement mentality.


9 posted on 04/14/2011 1:57:28 PM PDT by scbison
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To: ApplegateRanch
Martin Bashir exposes the shamster Rob Bell
10 posted on 04/14/2011 1:58:01 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free!)
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To: ApplegateRanch

“Something new is in the air.”

Neither itchy ears nor false prophets are new.


11 posted on 04/14/2011 1:58:44 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

“Its simply the application of the modern American culture of “getting benefits with no effort and no consequences for choices in life.”

Grace is unmerited and unearned salvation. We don’t save ourselves by our bootstraps, which your statement seems to imply.


12 posted on 04/14/2011 2:00:57 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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Hell can't be dead!!!!!

I just watched Wyatt Earp last nite and he shouted at one of the bad guys that he was going after another of the bad guys, and hell was coming with him!!!!
So hell can't be dead.

Oh........wait......uh.....

13 posted on 04/14/2011 2:05:28 PM PDT by Logic n' Reason ("I'm an expert on life...after shit happens." (Dead Like Me))
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For me as a non-Christian Conservative woman there is nothing scarier than living under the Godless big-brother so-called “morality” of progresso-socialists. I have nothing to fear and indeed me and mine have gained everything we are by living in a land still bearing a strong Christian moral ethos. The progresso-socialists’ aim is de-legitimization of that moral ethos and replacing it w/ their own big-brother progresso-maxist one. That is scarier than Hell itself.


14 posted on 04/14/2011 2:06:46 PM PDT by parisa
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"My generation wanted truth — these are folks who want authenticity. The whole judgmentalism and harshness is something they want to avoid."

They want authenticity but that judgmentalism thing they want to avoid. God is both a God of Love and a God of Judgment. The angels do not stand around His throne singing love songs. They sing "Holy, Holy, Holy. The judgmental thing is part of the package and it doesn't get more REAL than that. We were told not to judge, because He will do the judging. But we can inspect the fruit just a little bit.
15 posted on 04/14/2011 2:09:50 PM PDT by wbarmy (I chose to be a sheepdog once I saw what happens to the sheep.)
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“Is Hell dead?”

No, just Time magazine.

During the second half of 2009 the magazine saw a 34.9% decline in news stand sales.[9] During the first half of 2010 there was another decline of at least one third in Time magazine sales. In the second half of 2010 Time magazine newsstand sales declined by about 12% to just over 79 thousand copies per week. ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_(magazine)


16 posted on 04/14/2011 2:18:44 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: ApplegateRanch

Heaven is always very real, but hell is just a figurative type of place - to those who will not accept the Bible.


17 posted on 04/14/2011 2:27:16 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: all the best
like when they still had Whittaker Chambers after his epiphany???
18 posted on 04/14/2011 3:21:47 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: AD from SpringBay
I agree. My question is, what about all those people born before Christ, or even in, say deepest darkest Africa that never hear The Word. What of them.

Serious question.

Thank you for your reply.

19 posted on 04/14/2011 4:08:30 PM PDT by Hulka
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"My question is, what about all those people born before Christ, or even in, say deepest darkest Africa that never hear The Word. What of them."

What of them? I don't understand the question.

20 posted on 04/14/2011 4:31:16 PM PDT by circlecity
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