BlogRodent: Pentecostal Rumination & Review

Sorry it took so long to get these notes and ideas posted from last week’s class—it’s been a very busy week at work, and I haven’t had the time at home to get as much done as I’d hoped. So, unfortunately, this is a bit raw. But, fortunately, I have the audio done, and I have a couple other articles on this topic I can add in subsequent posts as well.

Without futher ado, here’s the audio file, it’s about an hour and twenty minutes long, and it includes some after-class discussion for a few die-hards who hung around to grill the unfortunate teacher. The audio is kinda poor, but it comes with the use-what-you-got technology category. If you can’t listen via the player below, here’s a link to the file.

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The main topic today was whether or not Christ spent any time in Hell. I argue against that proposition, even

Last week we finished the last five minutes of the Search for Heaven video, then we opened the floor for discussion. The recordings I have below are for my brief intro before the video, the class discussion after the video, then some after-class discussion I recorded with a few who hung around, for the die-hards who want to hear it all!

Tomorrow night’s topic will cover what happened after Christ was crucified. Did he go down to Hell, or not? We’ll look at the principle texts used in this doctrine, and we’ll see if we can come to some conclusions about what it means, and whether that’s important or not. If we have time, I’ll talk some more about the major positions against the traditional view of Hell.

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For all who were in last week’s open house, and for those who missed it, here are the little mini-presentations I gave regarding the future of this class.

For anybody else familiar with this site, this is my “boss blog” for the folks taking the Believer’s Life Institute classes at Calvary Chapel. Feel free to listen in and enjoy. But if this bores you, sorry.

Don’t have much to say on this first post except that we’re planning to talk a lot about Heaven and Hell over the next six or seven weeks. The next class will feature a video: The Search for Heaven. Here’re my open house talks.

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[audio:http://tatumweb.com/blog/wp-content/mp3/bli-hh-01b-open-house.mp3]
[audio:http://tatumweb.com/blog/wp-content/mp3/bli-hh-01c-open-house.mp3]

You can also download them here, here, and here.

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“Life after Death?”
A Study of Heaven & Hell

Calvary Assembly of God
Naperville, IL • Room 221

This class will last 7 weeks,
from September 14–through-October 26, 2005

I hope this class will be as thought provoking for you as it has been for me to prepare for. There are few more important—and sometimes disturbing—topics to study than what happens after we die.

I have ordered two DVDs, one of which should arrive shortly, and it would be useful for us to watch together as a class:

The Search for Heaven (60 minutes)

Well, last night was a good night!

Went to church and gave my talk on the existence of Heaven and Hell. Had a good crowd show up. Unfortunately, as usual, I had far more prepared than I could deliver in 45-minutes. :: Sigh ::

So, I've put the entire manuscript online, and it's available on my PulpitRodent page.

Some comments I received: My wife noted that she really liked the section on proofs and whether we require the same high level of evidence for most of the things we believe as we do for religious things. She mentioned that it was the kind of thing that once I said it, she felt a "Well, duh!" sort of reaction. The kind of thing you always know, but don't always articulate. I liked that.

Someone else told me they didn't

I'll be teaching a class this next month. I'm deep in the middle of research for it now.

I'm working on the "Heaven or Hell" topic. To my surprise, there's a lot more debate going on about Hell than I ever suspected.

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