McMahon, T.A.

What Think Ye Of Heaven?

July 1, 2014

If I could go back and correct anything attitude-wise about my walk with the Lord for nearly four decades, it would be that early on I would like to have had more of an eternal perspective. I didn’t exactly buy the lie that “to be too heavenly minded is to...Read more

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Questions and Responses

Question: I was recently sent a book that rather shocked me. Its title is Have Heart: Bridging the Gulf Between Heaven and Earth. It seems to do what you objected to in Heaven Is For Real [in a previous TBC article]. What do you think?

Question: An SDA teacher has said that the word "everlasting" doesn't necessarily mean "forever." Is he correct?

Question: The Bible clearly says, “broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat” (Mt 7:13). How has God “won” if there are more souls in hell than in heaven?”

Question: Why would anyone who has died need to get their body back in the resurrection? We will be spiritual beings in heaven.

Question: What hope do Muslim women have in eternity? Do they go to “paradise” and if so, it must be a different place from where the men supposedly go.

Question: ... Did Jesus descend into hell or not? I searched and searched the Scriptures and asked several pastors about this and still have no satisfactory answer.

Question: Would you please comment on the following statement by Dr. A. W. Tozer in his Renewal Day by Day: “The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves to go to hell is not likely to go there….

Question: Jesus warned that many who thought they were God’s children would be “cast out into outer darkness” to spend time in “weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Are these lower-level Christians...?

In Defense of the Faith: Question: One of the things I find most objectionable about Christians is the insistence that their particular formula for finding God is the only way.

Question: Can we be sure we're going to heaven?

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