Bible

Ancient Warning for a Powerful Nation

As modern-day Christians, we often reflect with thankfulness that we no longer have to keep all the rules and regulations God’s people followed under the Law of Moses. Yet we should remember that we serve the same God as the Old Testament Israelites. When God judged and punished His people, it was not because they failed to observe some fine point of the Law. His wrath came because they neglected and rejected His most basic…

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As scary as hell?

No. There is nothing as scary as hell. I just finished a novel in which one of the main characters had a near-death experience of going to hell; the author created a terrifying imaginary scene. Jesus and his apostles said hell is a real place of endless regret, darkness, burning, and pain; we do not need a fictional account to be very afraid of it. Bible phrases to describe hell include: “the lake of fire”,…

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