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Does Heaven Lose Morally Significant Freedom? And is that a Problem?

November 24, 2021 by Randal

@RealAtheology is a first-rate curator of engaging philosophy of religion content on Twitter. In this article, I’m going to interact with one of those tweets: ..if Heaven is as good as any place can possibly be—and if human beings have severely limited freedom of action in Heaven, then there is at least some reason to […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: free will, freedom, heaven

A Conversation on Christian Views of the Afterlife with Apostate Prophet

April 15, 2021 by Randal

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Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: afterlife, Apostate Prophet, debate, eschatology, heaven, hell

Why would God let rapists and murderers into heaven?

October 14, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: grace, heaven, repentance, salvation

Heaven, Hell, and Much In-Between: An Interview

May 20, 2020 by Randal

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, eschatology, heaven, hell, interview, S.J. Thomason, theology

Why Every Christian Should Be a Hopeful Universalist

January 16, 2019 by Randal

Here is a new video I uploaded to YouTube in which I discuss the concept of hopeful universalism. For further discussion, see chapter 20 of my book What On Earth Do We Know About Heaven? which is currently only $3.99!

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: eternal conscious torment, heaven, hell, hopeful universalism, universalism

How I’ll Know When I’m Ready For Heaven (Hint: it has to do with dog turds)

April 7, 2017 by Randal

Over the last month the snows have gradually receded from Edmonton as spring has tepidly taken hold on the northern prairies. It’s an exciting time of year, except for one thing: dog turds. Yes, dog turds. I try to get out for runs on a regular basis and as the snows melt away on the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: ethics, heaven, holiness, sanctification, self-sacrifice

Does God demand love under threat of damnation?

June 2, 2016 by Randal

A reader emailed the following question to me. With permission, I’m reproducing and responding to the question here: One recurring thought I keep having that I’d be interested in reading your thoughts on relates to the nature of salvation vs punishment and the way in which Scripture seems to call us to respond to God. Now, […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: apologetics, God, heaven, hell, theodicy, theology

My Conversation on Heaven with Paul Arthur

July 11, 2015 by Randal

A few months ago I was on the television program “Insight” with Paul Arthur to discuss my book What on Earth Do We Know About Heaven? I’ve included an audio track of the one hour program below. Apart from my smiling visage you don’t lose too much by being limited to the audio (although I agree […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: heaven, Insight, interview, Paul Arthur, What on Earth do we Know About Heaven

When you are so free that you’re not free to choose evil

May 27, 2015 by Randal

The 59-Second Apologist podcast on the topic “Will we have free will in heaven?” elicited the following comment from Mike D: “If the only possible choices in a Heavenly moral dilemma are all morally perfect ones, then you’ve basically just neutered the concept of free will into meaninglessness, because all possible choices are equally valid […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: culture, free will, freedom, heaven

10. The 59-Second Apologist: Will we have free will in heaven?

May 25, 2015 by Randal

Mark Twain once quipped: “Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed.” That piece of advice, however questionable it may be, does raise an interesting philosophical question: when a person becomes unable to sin, must they give up their free will? Some theologians have supposed so. To note one […]

Filed Under: Podcast-59 Second Apologist, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: afterlife, eschatology, free will, heaven

Randal provides some heavenly insight to “Insight”

March 26, 2015 by Randal

Yesterday I appeared on the Canadian television program “Insight” with Paul Arthur via Skype to talk about heaven and my book What on Earth Do We Know About Heaven? The hour long interview is available at the program’s website here. In the program I fielded several phone calls from viewers which always keeps things interesting.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: heaven, Insight, interview, Paul Arthur

Did you hear the one about the boy who went to heaven … except that he didn’t?

January 17, 2015 by Randal

Did you hear the one about the boy who went to heaven? Except that he didn’t. Because he made it all up. Because he wanted attention. (But give him credit. He felt guilty, admitted it, and wanted to set the record straight.) And then there is the Christian publisher who published the book and promised to take it […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Christian publishing, credibility, heaven

My heaven interview with a Bold Cup of Coffee

December 17, 2014 by Randal

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with the folks at boldcupofcoffee.com to talk about some of my recent work on heaven, apologetics, and dialogue. This is the first of three interviews and it focused on the topic of my book What on Earth Do we Know About Heaven? You can visit the accompanying Bold Cup of […]

Filed Under: Home Posts, The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bold Cup of Coffee, eschatology, heaven, interview

“Heaven is for Real” A Review

July 26, 2014 by Randal

Last night I saw “Heaven is for Real” available to rent at Redbox. Having read the book, and presented seminars critiquing it, and having written a sixty page book proposal titled What on Earth Happened to Colton Burpo? which was rejected by the publishers because they were worried that I (and they) would appear to […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: afterlife, eschatology, heaven, Heaven is for Real, movie, NDE, OBE, review

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