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Eliminating Satan and Hell: Affirming a Compassionate Creator-God is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this volume, V. Donald Emmel—a university pastor at San Jose State—describes his theories regarding Satan and hell, painting a picture that differs from the traditional understanding of eternal punishment. Emmel’s approach is intended to reassure those “who have been taught to fear the myths of Satan and hell.” He argues that, through misunderstandings and mistranslations, many see God as a...

Alan E. Bernstein, professor of history at the University of Arizona, is helpful in defining a concept of hell. He makes a distinction between two kinds of death. The first he calls a “neutral death” where all humans die with no judgment between the just and the unjust. Sheol is this concept of death. The second, he calls a “moral death” which developed later in Greek mythology where humans are rewarded or punished in an afterlife on the basis of their life upon earth. This moral
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