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I can just picture it. Preuss stops for a lunch break. He takes out his knife, maybe to cut an apple or a hunk of cheese. The knife slips out of his hand, so he lunges forward to grab it, forgetting for an instant where he is. Goes off the edge, tries to grab something, and misses. Talk about the worst four seconds of his life!

Alex Honnold • Alone On The Wall

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Romania has gone from being perceived as a risky investment destination to being the darling of Eastern Europe

David Smart, Managing Director of Franklin Templeton Solutions

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Eternal life vs. eternal punishment: A response to TurretinFan

Posted on June 26, 2012 by David Smart

In a recent post at TurretinFan’s blog he credits Adam Blauser with saying that “in Matthew 25:46, the ‘result’ meaning very clearly cannot be sustained.” And why is that? Because eternal punishment is “put in parallel with ‘eternal life’.” And since we know that “living is something that will be done eternally,” obviously punishment, as its parallel, will be “done for all of eternity.” TurretinFan heartily concurs, saying that with these two things in parallel “we are given an unmistakable clue that the ‘event’ or ‘manner’ sense is intended,” and that the exegetical burden rests upon Chris Date “to argue that the context favors a result interpretation, not an event/process/manner interpretation.”

But I am not convinced that either Blauser or TurretinFan have made a solid enough case to say that the result meaning “very clearly cannot be sustained” or that our clue in this passage is “unmistakable.” I submit that the result sense not only can be sustained but also that it should be.

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A just and holy God: A response to Patrick Navas

Posted on June 25, 2012 by David Smart

Patrick Navas, the author of Divine Truth or Human Tradition? (AuthorHouse, 2011) and a unitarian who debated against the deity of Christ on the Theopologetics podcast late last year, recently said that he finds it a bit confounding that evangelical Christians who affirm the doctrine of annihilationism do not seem to display any willingness to regard the traditional view of hell (specifically eternal conscious torment) as being at least as heretical as denying the doctrine of the Trinity.

If the traditional view is false, he asked, then is it not arguably the most slanderous doctrine ever conceived, misrepresenting the biblical God more gravely than any other view ever has? “It seems difficult to think of a worst [sic] doctrine that could be attributed to the God of the Bible,” he said. Supposing this to be correct, he goes on to ask why evangelical Christians who affirm the doctrine of annihilationism do not regard the traditional doctrine of hell “as a ‘heresy’ of the severest kind, and those who promote it as ‘heretics’.” Why is the traditional view of hell and those who believe it regarded as within the fold of orthodoxy but any denial of the Trinity is regarded as so far beyond orthodoxy as to be damnable heresy, despite granting the fact that the traditional view of hell is a far more egregious attack on the character of God?

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