Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10169. The location of heaven has been a live question ever since Yuri Gagarin came back from orbit and reported that he had not seen God up there. It was meant as a joke against believers, and it landed only because a great many people, Christians included, had a vague idea that heaven was…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10168. The location of hell is one of those questions that sounds like idle curiosity and usually is not. People ask it because they want to know whether hell is a real place with a real address, or a state of mind, or a metaphor that preachers use to frighten congregations into behaving. Scripture…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10055. Heaven is the dwelling place of God, the present home of believers who have died, and the sure hope of every soul who trusts in Jesus. When people ask me about it, I find they often carry a thin, cloudy picture in their heads, all harps and idleness and drifting spirits, which owes…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 5030. The human soul is spoken of everywhere and defined almost nowhere. We say a singer has soul, that a ship sank with all souls aboard, that someone sold his soul for success. Behind the loose talk sits one of the deepest questions a person can ask: is there something to me beyond my…