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Baxter preached in Nashville at the Trinity Lane Church of Christ from 1946 to 1951, [4]: 171 and preached at the Hillsboro Church of Christ in Nashville for 29 years from 1951 to 1980 when he retired. [1] During much of this time, his sermons were recorded for broadcast on WLAC radio on Sunday nights. He was considered by many to be "the best ...
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) teaches that the word "hell" is used scripturally in at least two senses. [107] The first is a place commonly called Spirit Prison which is a state of punishment for those who reject Christ and his Atonement.
Hell-fire preaching is a religious term that refers to preaching which calls attention to the final destiny ... (sermon or speech in Islam). [1] [2] Notable hellfire ...
Limbo of the Fathers, also known as "Abraham's Bosom", where just souls before Christ awaited Heaven. It is to this abode that the Catholic Church teaches Christ descended. [5] To these three, theologians historically add a fourth as well: Limbo of the Infants, where souls who die in original sin but without any personal mortal sin reside. [6]
Hieronymus Bosch's 1500 painting The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things.The four outer discs depict (clockwise from top left) Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. In Christian eschatology, the Four Last Things (Latin: quattuor novissima) [1] are Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell, the four last stages of the soul in life and the afterlife.
Choiński suggests that the rhetorical success of the sermon consists in the use of the "deictic shift" that transported the hearers mentally into the figurative images of hell. [ 16 ] Jonathan Edwards also wrote and spoke a great deal on heaven and angels, writes John Gerstner in Jonathan Edwards on Heaven and Hell , 1998, [ 17 ] and those ...
In hell, the people cannot cooperate, and consequently starve. In heaven, the diners feed one another across the table and are sated. The story can encourage people to be kind to each other. There are various interpretations of the fable including its use in sermons and in advice to uncaring people.
Either, thou shalt go down to hell because thou hast proudly resisted my preaching; or, thou that hast been exalted to heaven by entertaining me, and having my mighty wonders done in thee, shalt be visited with the heavier punishment, because thou wouldest not believe even these." [2]