Renowned theologian and New Testament scholar N T Wright recently contended that in the new creation, marriage as humans know ...

We are given wisdom and intelligence. We are also given free will. Then there is Jesus Christ the son of God, who is our ...

By definition, heaven cannot be boring. If our picture of heaven is boring, then the fault lies with the picture and not with heaven. It’s a sign that we have not yet taken seriously the promise that ...

When a family member or a friend passes away, we often find ourselves reflecting on the question “where are they now?” As mortal beings, it is a question of ultimate ...

Origins of belief in hell The Christian belief in hell has developed over the centuries, influenced by both Jewish and Greek ideas of the afterlife. The earliest parts of the Hebrew Bible, around ...

For many, these questions are rooted in the idea of reward for the good (a heaven) and punishment for the wicked (a hell), where earthly injustices are finally righted.

I believe heaven is for real. Allow me to get that out of the way up front. About the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting, I am as confident as I can be regarding any doctrine that ...

If heaven is seen as life’s ultimate reward, then one’s vision of paradise shapes how one lives. It is an essential tenet of Christian faith, of course, to love one’s neighbor.

In his review at Christianity Today Movies, Peter T. Chattaway writes, “ Kingdom of Heaven does for history what Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films did for Tolkien’s novels—it turns ...

In Heaven there is no sin, no option to sin, and so, by Christianity’s own definition, no free will. (Some skeptics point out that “love me or I’ll torture you forever” doesn’t exactly ...