15:00 CLAIRE KHAW joins to discuss universalism.
21:00 Our immortal souls are the vehicles to our allotted afterlife judged on a our performance in this life in being able to tell the difference between good and evil in theory and in practice.
22:00 No mention of the afterlife in the Old Testament.
23:00 Sadducees and Essenes are extinct, but the Pharisees who believed in the afterlife are still around.
24:00 The 13 Principles of Judaism by Maimonides
25:00 Three categories of the afterlife: heaven, hell and purgatory
30:00 We want to believe that God's in heaven and all is right with the world.
These famous lines come from "Pippa's Song" by English poet Robert Browning.
Often sung by the naive, optimistic silk-mill worker Pippa on her one day off, the full stanza reads:
The year's at the spring,And day's at the morn;Morning's at seven;The hill-side's dew-pearled;The lark's on the wing;The snail's on the thorn;God's in his heaven—All's right with the world!
32:00 Sinless infants
33:00 Wheat and tares
37:00 Heaven will be big enough to accommodate all who deserve it.
The binary approach
39:00 The ideal and the pass mark
41:00 A good death
47:00 Burning bridges
50:00 Communication skills
51:00 What kind of Christian gets to heaven?
53:00 Purgatory and reincarnation
54:00 Southern Baptist
55:00 Priestly absolution
58:00 God is logical.
1:01:00 Poolside bars in heaven
1:04:00 Methodism
Churches losing their denominational status
1:05:00 Half-Way Covenant 1662
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-Way_Covenant
"Penang’s only synagogue closed down in 1976 as the community could no longer fulfill a quorum of 10 or more adult Jews assembled for purposes of fulfilling a public religious obligation."
1:07:00 Being too strict or too lax
1:09:00 LUKE starts talking and I leave.
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