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eternity

Love has no shelf life: The goodness of life forever

February 20, 2015 by Randal

I’d like to live forever, and under the right conditions I hope I can. I discuss that wish (and rebut those who look askance at the prospect) here. So I always remain puzzled by atheists/skeptics/naturalists etc. who insist that they really don’t want to live forever, even under the most ideal of conditions. Soren Kierkegaard […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: afterlife, atheism, eschatology, eternity, skepticism

What happens after we die?

December 10, 2014 by Randal

This past Sunday (Dec. 7th) I was invited to give a talk (aka a “sermon”) at St. Albert Alliance Church on the topic “What happens after we die?” (Thanks to Matt Garvin for inviting me and to the church for being a great host.) The talk was part of an extended series the church did […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: death, eschatology, eternity, existentialism, intermediate state, naturalism

Are we horrified by hell because we aren’t holy enough?

April 4, 2014 by Randal

Could it be that we are horrified at the prospect of people suffering eternal torture in body and mind because we are insufficiently holy? At first blush, that claim seems to contradict in the most direct terms what it means to be holy. And yet, you don’t have to look far to find theologians suggesting that […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: eternal conscious torment, eternity, God, hell, holiness, judgment

Life is meaningful because it does (or doesn’t) go on forever (a footnote)

February 21, 2013 by Randal

Many a theist says this life is meaningful (or more meaningful) because it is the beginning of a life that is infinite in duration. Many an atheist says this life is meaningful (or more meaningful) because it is finite in duration. What does each side mean when they make these declarations? Let’s take a closer look at the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, eternity, existentialism, life, meaning, theism

Life is meaningful because it does (or doesn’t) go on forever

February 20, 2013 by Randal

Many times I’ve heard theists who accept the doctrine of human immortality talk about the fact that human life is meaningful because it continues forever. Thus, they’ll say things like this ditty from Maximus (Russell Crowe in “Gladiator”): “Brothers, what we do in life echoes in eternity.” And then there is this classic observation from […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: atheism, eternity, existential argument, life, theism, time

A quick look at God as a temporal being

January 8, 2013 by Randal

In “Love, omnibenevolence, and Francis Chan” I observed that many Calvinists reject the biblical presentation of God as sempiternal (that is, as backwardly and forwardly everlasting) in favor of an abstract and extra-biblical theory of divine atemporality. While I don’t have a problem with this per se, I do object when Calvinists then claim that Arminians […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: arminianism, atemporality, Bible, Calvinism, eternity, God, hermeneutics, temporality

Will resurrected bodies have face mites?

September 8, 2012 by Randal

The doctrine of the general resurrection is central to the Christian theological conception of the afterlife. At the core of the doctrine is the claim that numerically the same body that dies will one day be restored to life. Conceptually it is relatively straightforward to envision this process in the case of Christ who died […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Demodex mite, eschatology, eternity, heaven, resurrection, theology

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