The following is an excerpt from Joel Beeke’s amazing book, Living for God’s Glory: An Introduction to Calvinism. If you’ve not read this volume, it’s certain to be a classic in its own time – one of the best (if not the best!) books on Calvinism ever published. I cannot recommend it too highly. Here’s [...]
Eternal Punishment
Is Hell Real? Hell Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents Eternal Punishment
This book, Hell Under Fire: Modern Scholarship Reinvents Eternal Punishment, provides a biblical, systematic, and practical theology of hell. The contributors to this volume unite in affirming the historic Christian doctrine regarding the final destiny of the unsaved: They will suffer everlasting conscious punishment away from the joyous presence of God. Of all the teachings [...]
Evangelical Annihilationism in Review by J.I. Packer
Evangelicalism is variously defined by various people. I define it as the religion of Trinitarian Bible-believers who glory in Christ’s Cross as the only source of peace with God and seek to share their faith with others; and I note that in the West (to look no further) evangelicalism, like Protestant liberalism, Roman Catholicism of [...]
Future Punishment: The Universalist Refuted by Archibald Alexander
No benevolent being delights in the suffering of others—for its own sake. But it is one of the clearest dictates of reason, that sin should be visited with punishment. Men may differ widely in opinion as to what sin is, in regard to many particulars, but everyone sees and feels the propriety of punishing crimes, [...]
The Biblical Doctrine of Hell Examined by Brian Schwertley
The doctrine of eternal punishment is probably the most unpopular, hated and feared teaching in the entire Bible. The thought of people burning in hell for eternity is most repugnant to the human mind. “It is a doctrine which the natural heart revolts from and struggles against, and to which it submits only under stress [...]
