In several of my past blog posts, I have been building a case for why I believe that some sort of theory of Christian inclusivism is necessary if Christians want to believe everything the Bible says about which individuals will be eternally saved.

As a reminder, Christian inclusivism is the …

In my past several posts, I have been building a case for why I believe that some sort of theory of Christian inclusivism is necessary if Christians want to believe everything the Bible says about which individuals will be eternally saved.

As a reminder, Christian inclusivism is the idea that …

In my previous two posts, I've focused on answering the question of who will ultimately experience eternal life in the New Heaven and New Earth (Revelation 21:1).

Already, two options have been eliminated:

1. That only those few people who specifically heard and believed in Jesus during their earthly lives …

In my previous blog post, I explained why I think that God truly wants to save everyone.

Yet the fact that the Bible says that God clearly wants to save everyone doesn't necessarily mean that God actually will save everyone.

But why not? If God truly loves everyone, and if …

If you have ever attended a Christian church, I hope that you would have heard things like:

• "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16).
• "God shows his love for us …

If there's one trait that I think we need in order to be strong Christians in our world today, it's the courage to be disliked. At worst, we might even need the courage to be outright hated.

Of course, no one wants to be disliked or hated. That's why peer …

As part of my preparation for my dissertation defence in August 2021, I was asked to think about why my doctoral research matters to the church.

At first glance, I admit that my investigation into why the eighteenth-century Puritan theologian Jonathan Edwards believed that God predestines most people to hell …

If you've heard a little about what Christianity teaches about the future, and have been paying attention to what's going on in the world over the last little while, you might be asking questions like:

• Are we approaching the end of the world?
• Are we currently in the Tribulation?
• What …

If there's anything obvious about the world in 2020 and 2021, it's that fear of death is everywhere (especially in the media).

Incredible precautions are taken against an illness that kills only a very small percentage of people who get it, many of whom were already ill with other conditions …

Many people have noted the decline of Christianity in Western countries over the last few hundred years, which has become even more obvious in the last fifty to seventy years. The reasons for this decline are attributed to many different things.

Some say it's just 'post-Christendom,' where Western societies as …