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Talbot Magazine
Book Excerpt: What will we do in the eternal state?
Excerpt from ’40 Questions 51�� Heaven and Hell,’ by Alan W. Gomes
Alan Gomes — June 04, 2019
Sitting on a heavenly cloud, strumming a golden harp or polishing a halo. An interminable church service, where people sing psalms without respite....
51�� Magazine
Does God ‘Send People to Hell’?
Book excerpt from '40 Questions 51�� Heaven and Hell'
Alan Gomes — February 20, 2019
The notion that God sends people to hell is accurate in a certain sense. If by “send to hell” one means that God himself will cast unrepentant...
Think Biblically
500th Anniversary of the Reformation
with professor Alan Gomes
Alan Gomes, Sean McDowell, Scott Rae — November 09, 2017
On Oct. 31, we celebrated the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing the 95 Theses on the door of his church in Wittenburg, Germany. Alan...
The Good Book Blog
Visits to Heaven and Hell, Part Two
Alan Gomes — January 28, 2015
In the last twenty years, many individuals claim to have visited heaven or hell and have written vivid accounts of what they purport to have seen. What should we make of these stories? Should they form a basis for our faith? Might they supplement or enhance the convictions that we already have? How do we evaluate such claims and what is their practical use even if true?
The Good Book Blog
Visits to Heaven and Hell, Part One
Alan Gomes — January 27, 2015
In the last twenty years, many individuals claim to have visited heaven or hell and have written vivid accounts of what they purport to have seen. What should we make of these stories? Should they form a basis for our faith? Might they supplement or enhance the convictions that we already have? How do we evaluate such claims and what is their practical use even if true?
The Good Book Blog
Some Reflections on 1 Cor. 2:14
Alan Gomes — May 08, 2013
The Bible is God’s very word and therefore carries the authority of God himself. And that word of God, Scripture tells us, is a powerful thing—“living and active and sharper than even a two-edged sword” (Heb. 4:12). It floods the soul with its resplendent rays, laying bare God’s truth and putting all darkness to flight. Yet, as this text tells us, not all receive the truth of this light, and some esteem it as folly itself. How can this be? If Scripture is “the power of God unto salvation” (Rom. 1:16), how could any reject its authoritative claims?
The Good Book Blog
A Lord's Supper Meditation
Alan Gomes — January 31, 2012
[This Lord's Supper meditation was given at Grace Evangelical Free Church of La Mirada on 1.29.12.] Tonight we are about to celebrate the Lord’s Supper, in which we focus our thoughts on the marvelous work of redemption that Christ accomplished for us. In the next 10 minutes or so, I’d like us to mediate upon the depth of what transpired.
The Good Book Blog
Justification and the New Perspective
Alan Gomes — April 11, 2011
The great reformer Martin Luther once declared that the biblical teaching of justification by faith alone “is the doctrine by which the church stands or falls.” Historically, Protestants have understood justification to mean that God declares us “not guilty” for our sins because Christ bore them in our place, and also that God declares us as being positively righteous in his sight because of Christ’s righteousness imputed to us, i.e., credited to our accounts. However, a recent teaching called the “New Perspective on Paul” has called into question the traditional Protestant understanding of justification.