An Annotated Bibliography on Hell
By The Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven and Hell, by Paul Helm. Banner of Truth, 1989. 152 pages. $8
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How Does Hell Glorify God?
By To get at the way that hell glorifies God, we need to see hell in light of the Bible’s big story, its point of view, and its characterization of God and man.[1]
THE BIBLE’S BIG STORY
The Bible’s plot, like all plots, has a beginning, middle, and end.
Beginning
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Hellfire and Brimstone: Interpreting the New Testament’s Descriptions of Hell
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The New Testament graphically and horrifically describes hell. And that raises a thorny question: How should we interpret those dreadful images? May we simply label them “metaphors” to soften their bite?[1]
HOW DOES THE NEW TESTAMENT DESCRIBE HELL?
In their recent little book What Is Hell?, Christopher W. Morgan and Robert A. Peterson succinctly summarize what the Bible teaches about hell in the following five truths.[2]
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Why Hell Is Integral to the Gospel
By Greg GilbertI’m sure you were overjoyed to learn that this issue of the 9Marks 9Marks Journal focuses on the topic of hell. In fact, it’s a topic that, if anything, makes us want to avert our eyes and think about something else entirely.
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There’s Something Worse than Death
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We will never make sense of the Bible, the church’s mission, or the glory of the gospel unless we understand this seeming paradox: Death is the last enemy, but it is not the worst.
Clearly, death is an enemy, the last enemy to be destroyed, Paul tells us (1 Cor. 15:26). Death is the tragic result of sin (Rom. 5:12). It should be hated and despised. It should arouse our anger and mournful indignation (John 11:35, 38). Death must be defeated.
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Good Friday Meditation: A Fitting Crown
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They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand and knelt in front of him and mocked him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they said. Matthew 27:28-29
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Notes from the Future: Evangelical Liberalism in the UK
By Mike Ovey
The Lord Jesus called me into his kingdom in April 1974 in a Baptist church in Southampton, England. He had blessed me with a Christian family, and my conversion was very much a humble acceptance in my heart of truths I had long known in my head. Then, almost immediately after my conversion, I found myself (as a 15 year old) having to resist liberal theology from my fellow pupils at school, and even more so from my teachers.
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The Neo-Liberal Stealth Offensive
By Phil Johnson
The gospel's most dangerous earthly adversaries are not raving atheists who stand outside the door shouting threats and insults. They are church leaders who cultivate a gentle, friendly, pious demeanor but hack away at the foundations of faith under the guise of keeping in step with a changing world.
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Air Conditioning Hell: How Liberalism Happens
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Theological liberals do not intend to destroy Christianity, but to save it. As a matter of fact, theological liberalism is motivated by what might be described as an apologetic motivation. The pattern of theological liberalism is all too clear. Theological liberals are absolutely certain that Christianity must be saved…from itself.
LIBERALISM: SAVING CHRISTIANITY FROM ITSELF
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