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Orthodox Atonement and the Doctrine of Hell
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Some good conversation going on in regards to Hell, eternal punishment, and how it relates to the Atonement. I've enjoined evesdropping and hearing the different points being made. For some differing views check out the following:
The Pontificator discusses Frederica Matthewes-Greene's article of punshment in Hell here…
Scot McKnight and fellows discuss justification and the atonement here, with some contributions of an eastern orthodox perspective by Professor Bradley Nassif…
and finally Fr Patrick Henry has an article on the atonement at Orthodoxy Today…
Some Favorite CS Lewis Quotes
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“I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.”
–Reflections on the Psalms
“The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.”
–Reflections on the Psalms
“Nothing is yet in its true form.”
–Till We Have Faces
“If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”
–Mere Christianity
“All joy…emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings.”
–from an unknown letter
“Until you have given up your self to Him you will not have a real self…”
–Mere Christianity
“Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.”
–Reflections on the Psalms
“‘Nothing, not even what is lowest and most bestial, will not be raised again if it submits to death.’”
–The Great Divorce
