Queer Look at the BibleSacred texts and commentary… from a different point of view

The link below is about a really wonderful story from This American Life.

The Bible’s priorities, however, have been inverted by evangelicals, for whom Hell has become a central, essential doctrine.

I’m not sure how that happened. St. Paul had precisely nothing to say on the subject of Hell. He had a lot to say about death, resurrection and the kingdom, but not one word about Hell.

I can tell you why Paul has no mention of Hell.  For him it neither existe, nor was important. For Paul believed that the second coming would be in his lifetime.

You can probably find the TAL story- the original, but here is a blurb about it.

slacktivist: H – E – double hockey sticks.

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