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Article: Unquenchable fire.(theology of eternal damnation and hell)(Living By The Word)(Brief Article)(Column)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- December 3, 1997
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YOU BROOD of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?" Talk about throwing the book at your listeners. Where did this Baptist study preaching anyway? Didn't they teach John the importance of introductions, of "contracting" and "partnering" with his listeners? But he isn't listening to homiletics professors.
"Look around," John says. "Seems we've got some bad trees around here not bearing good fruit. Everyone of 'em is going to be cut down and thrown into tile fire. A winnowing time is coming. The wheat and the chaff will be separated, and the chaff will burn with unquenchable fire."
And yet, Luke says, this is how John "proclaimed the ...