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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...

in Egypt, the revelation at Mt. Sinai, and Israel’s sojourn in the wilderness. These early narratives of J appear to be composed by an author or authors living in the southern kingdom of Judah and written sometime after the 922 BCE split of the nation into the north and the south but prior to the destruction of the northern kingdom in 721 BCE. The second stream is called “E” because “Elohim” is consistently used for the name of God. The author appears to have lived in the northern kingdom about the
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