eternal-life
Biblical defense of eternal life, resurrection hope, and the nature of salvation.
Jewish Traditions about the Afterlife Paid Members Public
Kaddish Prayer (c. Second Temple Period, before 70 CE): The earliest form, known as the “Half Kaddish”, dates back to the Second Temple period. The Mourner’s Kaddish is a Jewish prayer traditionally recited for eleven months after a loved one’s death and on the death anniversary (yahrzeit). It
JOHN 3:16 VERSUS LIMITED ATONEMENT Paid Members Public
According to one of the most famous passages of the Holy Bible God sent his only-begotten into the world to save it so that whoever chooses to believe in the Son will be spared from perishing and be granted everlasting life: “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the
MACARTHUR ON JOHN 3:16 Paid Members Public
The following post is taken from this site: Does God So Love the World? – Grace to You with John. All emphasis will be mine. John MacArthur Love is the best known but least understood of all God’s attributes. Almost everyone who believes in God these days sees Him as
IBN TAYMIYYAH’S VIEW OF HELL REVISITED Paid Members Public
In this post, I will be quoting from one of the leading (if not the foremost) scholar on Ibn Taymiyyah, the beloved theologian and polemicist of Wahhabi/Salafi Muslims, Jon Hoover, who wrote a book on the so-called Shaykh al-Islam. In his writing, Hoover confirms that Ibn Taymiyyah rejected everlasting
IBN TAYMIYYAH’S REJECTION OF ETERNAL PUNISHMENT Paid Members Public
In this post, I will be quoting snippets from Hassan Radwan’s Translation of Ibn Taymiyyah’s: The Response to Those Who Say Heaven & Hell Will Pass Away (Al-Radd ‘ala man qala bi-fana’ al-janna wa al-nar), which can be accessed and downloaded from: https://www.academia.edu/49229114/_Response_
HOMOSEXUALITY AND PEDERASTY IN ISLAM’S PARADISE? Paid Members Public
The Quran mentions that believers will have young boys serving them forever in paradise: And round them shall go boys of theirs as if they were hidden pearls. S. 52:24 Shakir And round about them shall go youths never altering in age; when you see them you will think
The Fate of Judas Iscariot Paid Members Public
I am republishing Jimmy Akin’s post: The Fate of Judas Iscariot. How should we understand the differences in how Matthew and Luke (in Acts) record the fate of Judas? Taken from my book A Daily Defense: Day 170: How Judas Iscariot Died Challenge: Matthew and Luke contradict each other.
REVISITED: JESUS THE TRUE GOD AND ETERNAL LIFE Paid Members Public
In this short post I will sum up the evidence from the Johannine corpus that the Father is said to be the only true God, not to the exclusion of the Son (or the Holy Spirit), but in perfect inseparable union with his beloved Son (and his eternal Spirit.) The