David, thank you for making your views clear. We need as many PhD level scholars as possible to speak out about the importance of a final Apocatastasis! In your article you addressed the particular ways in which judgment passages were addressed to the problem of the rich not being generous to the poor. I wonder if you might comment on Jesus’ connection with Gehenna and violence
Matt 5:22Whereas I say to you that everyone who becomes angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; and whoever says ‘Raka’h to his brother shall be liable to the Council; and whoever says ‘worthless reprobate’i shall be liable to enter Hinnom’s Vale of fire. (DBH translation).
In the sermon on the mount “hell” seems to be connected with violence which leads to destruction/Gehenna. Strikingly Jesus advocates not only non-violence, but non-resistance or non-opposition as well as in 5:39. Could you perhaps add that “Hell is for the Violent”? What do you make of Jesus’ command to not resist or oppose the evil person?
Good post. I'm not sure the last clause makes sense. I'd replace the indefinite article and excise the "with the".
"In the first scenario, the wicked are simply destroyed, whether by the avenger that is mortality, by some specialized experience of death, or sometimes by a bloody, violent, vicious with the warrior god YHWH on his fabled Day.
David, thank you for making your views clear. We need as many PhD level scholars as possible to speak out about the importance of a final Apocatastasis! In your article you addressed the particular ways in which judgment passages were addressed to the problem of the rich not being generous to the poor. I wonder if you might comment on Jesus’ connection with Gehenna and violence
Matt 5:22Whereas I say to you that everyone who becomes angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment; and whoever says ‘Raka’h to his brother shall be liable to the Council; and whoever says ‘worthless reprobate’i shall be liable to enter Hinnom’s Vale of fire. (DBH translation).
In the sermon on the mount “hell” seems to be connected with violence which leads to destruction/Gehenna. Strikingly Jesus advocates not only non-violence, but non-resistance or non-opposition as well as in 5:39. Could you perhaps add that “Hell is for the Violent”? What do you make of Jesus’ command to not resist or oppose the evil person?
Good post. I'm not sure the last clause makes sense. I'd replace the indefinite article and excise the "with the".
"In the first scenario, the wicked are simply destroyed, whether by the avenger that is mortality, by some specialized experience of death, or sometimes by a bloody, violent, vicious with the warrior god YHWH on his fabled Day.