This is Memorial Day. Remember our fallen heroes. As you go through this day, I’ll look at this question: Was America ever really a Christian nation? Was this country built on principles of the Bible? I hear so often that we used to be a Christian nation, but how could a Christian nation enslave Africans [...]
This is a combination of several questions but they all boil down to: Should we vaccinate our children? Is the MMR vaccination dangerous? Does it cause autism, bowel disease, or cancer? This is a hot topic since a) we love our children, b) are afraid we are not being as good and protective as we [...]
Perhaps I’m just feeling cocky after (so far) surviving the airing of my Hell series, but it has come time to address this question that appeared in the tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com pile. Did Jesus turn water into alcoholic wine? If he did why do people have such a problem with the idea of this? The story of [...]
I tried to update here a few times in the last two days and couldn’t. I’m assured things are back up and running today. I’ll dip into the pile at tentpegsquestion@yahoo.com and do two quick ones. After a 9+ hour drive home from Virginia, that’s about all I’m up for tonight! Blessings and peace. I [...]
I’ve already blogged about the controversy concerning the place of heaven. You can find that by trolling back through Tentpegs (which I hope is working for all of you again. A lot of bugs with this upgrade but I’m assured they are all fixed now). N.T. Wright and a lot of the up and coming [...]
I find it interesting that on the comment page as well as in private correspondence one of the fears or objections (or just honest questions) I get is “Isn’t this just like purgatory?” I smile when I hear this and am tempted to say “If it is… so what?” but I don’t. I understand the [...]
I worked out “with fear and trembling” my position on hell and shared that material with you in the last four blogs. However, I have also alluded to the fact that I continue to learn and, so, it is certainly possible that I will change my position again. Proceed with prayer and caution. Some have [...]
I hope to update this blog with a fifth installment on “hell” but, first, I need to alert you to a change in its address. There is an auto-redirect feature to bring people here but you might want to just change its address in your RSS feed list or bookmarks. Theobloggers updated the blog this [...]
I have a good friend who is calls himself an “agnostic when it comes to hell.” What he means by that is that the scripture just doesn’t give enough information — or consistent information — to make definitive statements about what hell is, what it contains, how long individuals last in it, or even if [...]