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Hell: Deciphering its Biblical Meaning
This book is about hell, its traditional role in the Christian Church and the problems it presents for Christians, both those who believe it and those who don't. Believers in orthodox hell often have an issue with their conscience. Non-believers tend to more readily question the reliability of scripture. "Hell" shows a way we can have both -- accurate scripture and a secure conscience. Author_ Harold R Booher, Ph.D is a freelance writer on issues in philosophy, science and religion. His acclaimed book, "Origins, Icons, and Illusions" opened the door to science/religion discussion of the effects of psychology on the interpretation of scientific findings. Dr. Booher has been a life-long Bible student and has written numerous articles, booklets and books on Christianity, including a "Chronology of the New Testament Gospels" and "Christianity's Lost Dispensations". He lives in Baltimore. Hell, Bible, Christian, Church, Damnation, Fire, Resurrection, Paradise, Eternity, Suffering, Pain, Perpetuity, Hades, Sheol, Gehenna, Destructionism, Immortality, Annihilationism, Torment, Punishment, Judgment.
102 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 20, 2016
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July 29, 2016
Okay, must be a dark day to read a book about Hell. Gosh, I'm living in Barack Obama's America so I feel as if we are already getting an advanced view of the fire and brimstone --and John Kerry has been right! Global warming is a reality: it is just around the corner in God's special place!
So this book (actually closer to an extended tome) sets out to clear up the clutter of what many (most) of us have been taught in American Catholic, Protestant, or Evangelical traditions and set forth an enlightened picture of the Hell God has designed for us. Yet the author's introduction is illustrative for he writes in his first paragraph that " I was literally dumbfounded therefore to find out the majority of conservative evangelical thinkers still believe in an orthodox hell. They all wish it were not true, and their preachers do not talk about it..."
I hoped that he would provide some evidence for these opinions in his otherwise interesting examination on a subject that I, for one, have floating in the back of my mind but prefer not to put forth front-and-center. The author concentrates the majority of this book on the argument of an "everlasting torment" hell or an "eternal destruction" of our soul is the Biblical view. I shan't walk the reader down the same trails as the author, nor give away his conclusion, but I will say that I read the book with interest, and have been thinking about his arguments since completing the book. And that says a lot for the author and for his subject matter.
Don't know whether there will be a sequel --or what that would look like! -- but grateful for having read this book. Thanks to Net Galley for making this available at no charge.
So this book (actually closer to an extended tome) sets out to clear up the clutter of what many (most) of us have been taught in American Catholic, Protestant, or Evangelical traditions and set forth an enlightened picture of the Hell God has designed for us. Yet the author's introduction is illustrative for he writes in his first paragraph that " I was literally dumbfounded therefore to find out the majority of conservative evangelical thinkers still believe in an orthodox hell. They all wish it were not true, and their preachers do not talk about it..."
I hoped that he would provide some evidence for these opinions in his otherwise interesting examination on a subject that I, for one, have floating in the back of my mind but prefer not to put forth front-and-center. The author concentrates the majority of this book on the argument of an "everlasting torment" hell or an "eternal destruction" of our soul is the Biblical view. I shan't walk the reader down the same trails as the author, nor give away his conclusion, but I will say that I read the book with interest, and have been thinking about his arguments since completing the book. And that says a lot for the author and for his subject matter.
Don't know whether there will be a sequel --or what that would look like! -- but grateful for having read this book. Thanks to Net Galley for making this available at no charge.
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