“Before moving on,” he writes, “it is worth noting that Jesus speaks of the destruction of a ‘body’ in hell after the death of a body. He is not referring to the putrefaction of a corpse, which takes place in the grave rather than hell and does not affect the soul at all. He is clearly anticipating a resurrected body that can be ‘thrown into hell’. This raises again the speculative question as to why God would bother to give the wicked new bodies only to annihilate them immediately afterwards! His act of ‘re-creation’ would be more understandable if the raised body were for continual existence rather than complete annihilation”.
Passages like this raise other “speculative questions”, such as: why do so many believers claim to know things they can’t possibly know? And… how does it feel to concoct an entire book which, from start to finish, is entirely speculative, drawn from a feverish imagination without evidence of any kind? Oh, and can I suggest that introducing children to the fires of hell should be categorised as child abuse?
In Hull today, photographing the siting of a massive wind turbine blade in Victoria Square…
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