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Love Wins and Logic Loses: The Fallacies of Rob Bell (part 4)

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Jim Spiegel

In this last installment of this series, I will highlight some of the insights and flaws of the last few chapters of Love Wins. Chapter five, entitled “Dying to Live,” deals with the doctrine of the atonement.  Bell points out … Continue reading →

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Love Wins and Logic Loses: The Fallacies of Rob Bell (part 3)

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Jim Spiegel

Chapter 3 of Love Wins is entitled “Hell.”  Given the fact that it is the most controversial chapter, it is perhaps ironic that it is also the most logically sound chapter in the book, at least in terms of the … Continue reading →

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Love Wins and Logic Loses: The Fallacies of Rob Bell (part 2)

Posted on April 30, 2011 by Jim Spiegel

Chapter two of Love Wins is entitled “Here is the New There” and is about heaven.  Bell’s principle concern in the chapter is to correct some popular misconceptions about the point of the Christian life, especially the notion that redemption … Continue reading →

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Love Wins and Logic Loses: The Fallacies of Rob Bell

Posted on April 27, 2011 by Jim Spiegel

Rob Bell’s book Love Wins isn’t just popular.  It’s a cultural phenomenon.  With an extremely effective pre-publication ad campaign, the book sold like hotcakes weeks before its release.  And since its release it has perched high on the New York … Continue reading →

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Hell and the Undermining of Heavenly Happiness

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Jim Spiegel

Lately, I’ve been pondering some of Thomas Talbott’s arguments against the traditional doctrine of hell (in his 1990 Faith and Philosophy essay “The Doctrine of Everlasting Punishment”).  He makes many interesting points, both in criticism of eternal conscious torment and … Continue reading →

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A Defense of Conditional Immortalism

Posted on August 4, 2009 by Jim Spiegel

Conditional immortalism is the view that human beings are not naturally immortal but are only granted immortality (eternal life) by God as part of our salvation.  In other words, immortality is conditional upon divine grace.  Thus, those who are saved … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Providence and Hell

Posted on July 29, 2009 by Jim Spiegel

I hold to a high view of providence—what is sometimes called the “Augustinian” perspective.  This is essentially the view that God actively governs the entire cosmos, including human beings.  The Augustinian view jives well with the Calvinist doctrine of salvation, … Continue reading →

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