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"Christianity is NOT a religion; it's the proclamation of the end of religion. Religion is a human activity dedicated to the job of reconciling God to humanity and humanity to itself. The Gospel, however - the Good News of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ - is the astonishing announcement that God has done the whole work of reconciliation without a scrap of human assistance. It is the bizarre proclamation that religion is over, period." 

-Robert F. Capon, "The Astonished Heart"

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"If I were Christ, nothing could satisfy me but that every human being should in the end be saved, and therefore I am sure that nothing less will satisfy Him...God is the Creator of every human being, therefore He is the Father of each one, and they are all His children; and Christ died for every one, and is declared to be 'the propitiation not for our sins only, but also for the sins of the whole world' (1 John 2:2). However great the ignorance therefore, or however grievous the sin, the promise of salvation is positive and without limitations. If it is true that 'by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation,' it is equally true that 'by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.' To limit the last 'all men' is also to limit the first. The salvation is absolutely equal to the fall. There is to be a final 'restitution of all things', when 'at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow, of things in heaven, and things on earth, and things under the earth, and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.' Every knee, every tongue-words could not be more embracing. The how and the when I could not see; but the one essential fact was all I needed-somewhere and somehow God was going to make every thing right for all the creatures He had created. My heart was at rest about it forever."

-Hannah Whitall Smith, The Unselfishness of God and How I Discovered It

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"The doctrine of eternal punishment is in perfect harmony with the savagery of the men who made the orthodox creeds. It is in harmony with torture, with flaying alive, and with burnings."

-Robert Green Ingersoll (1833-1899)

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"That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly, they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell."

-Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274 CE), Summa Theologica.

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"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."

-Thomas Paine

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"The sight of hell torments will exalt the happiness of the saints forever. . .Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his unbelieving children in Hell. . . I tell you, yea! Such will be his sense of justice that it will increase rather than diminish his bliss."

-Jonathan Edwards, "The Eternity of Hell Torments" (Sermon), April 1739

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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities."

-Voltaire, (1694-1778)

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"The history of organized religion, at least in the Western tradition, is a record of our human resistance to the proclamation that God is love, that His love extends to everyone, and that it is in no way conditioned upon human obedience or human faithfulness."

-Thomas Talbott, The Inescapable Love of God

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"What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell."

-Isaac Watts (1674-1748)

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"Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.."

-W. Somerset Maugham

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"Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Creator and Sustainer of ALL things and ALL people. He either does or allows everything that is done in heaven or on earth. If one hundred billion helpless human beings are being tortured, then Jesus is doing it. Satan has brought suffering and death to the whole human race. However, if eternal torment IS TRUE, then Jesus Christ will torture forever the whole human race, except the small handful who will be saved. In one hour, in a hot searing hell, our Lord will inflict more pain and agony on each person than Satan inflicted on that person during his entire life."

-J. Preston Eby, The Law of Circularity

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"There are babies a span long in hell."

-John Calvin

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"If the traditional Church model is true, the universe will be a massive Hell-hole with one tiny separate spot for a handful of elected or perseverant self-righteous Christians and their god(s) who failed to accomplish his goal which was to be the savior of the world.."

-Gary Amirault

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"The contention that God's holiness is of such nature that His justice can never be satisfied by anything save eternal conscious suffering as the penalty for sins needs to be carefully examined. If this dogma is true, then this is the penalty Christ should have paid when He died for our sins. He paid the debt that we owed to God, but He did not suffer eternally. If the debt we owed was 'eternal suffering' then that debt has never been paid. Jesus Christ suffered just six hours on the Cross. He did not suffer eternally. If we would know of God's wrath against sin, we need to look at the Cross. We will learn from this that our God does punish sin, but we will also learn that the wages of sin is death and not eternal conscious torment."

-Clyde L. Pilkington Jr., Hell

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"When thou diest, thy soul will be tormented alone; that will be a hell for it, but at the day of judgment they body will join they soul, and then thou wilt have twin hells, thy soul sweating drops of blood, and thy body suffused with agony. In fire exactly like that which we have on earth thy body will lie, asbestos-like, forever unconsumed, all they veins roads for the feet of pain to travel on, every nerve a string on which the devil shall forever play his diabolical tune of 'Hell's Unutterable Lament.'"

-Reverend C. H. Spurgeon

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"Whatever the penalty of sin is, Jesus Christ endured it to the full in order to become our Savior. If the penalty of sin is either annihilation or endless punishment, Jesus Christ could not be the Savior of anyone for He was neither annihilated nor endlessly tormented. 'Christ DIED for our sins!' If it were not for the death, the resurrection, and the present life of Jesus Christ, the final end of every human being would be death."

-J. E. Kirk, The Good News Gospel

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"I believe implicitly in the ultimate and complete triumph of God, the time when all things will be subject to him, and when God will be everything to everyone (1 Cor. 15:24-28). For me this has certain consequences. If one man remains outside the love of God at the end of time, it means that that one man has defeated the love of God - and that is impossible. Further, there is only one way in which we can think of the triumph of God. If God was no more than a King or Judge, then it would be possible to speak of his triumph, if his enemies were agonizing in hell or were totally and completely obliterated and wiped out. But God is not only King and Judge, God is Father - he is indeed Father more than anything else. No father could be happy while there were members of his family for ever in agony. No father would count it a triumph to obliterate the disobedient members of his family. The only triumph a father can know is to have all his family back home. The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by and in love with God."

-William Barclay, William Barclay: A Spiritual Autobiography

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"The vast discussion among commentators concerning the expression 'the end of the law', would never have been, had it been recognized: 

(1) that God gave the law only to Israel as He said; 

(2) that it was a temporary thing, a 'ministration of death', 
to reveal sin, and therefore the necessity of Christ's death; 

(3) that Christ having come, the day of the law was over -- it was 'annulled'. 

It is because Reformed theology has kept us Gentiles under the law, if not as a means of righteousness, then as 'a rule of life', that all the trouble has arisen. The law is no more a rule of life than it is a means of righteousness. Walking in the Spirit has now taken the place of walking by ordinances. God has another principle under which He has put His saints. Ye are not under law, but, under grace!"

-W. R. Newell

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"It is interesting that when the Lord Jesus came in flesh to His people under the law, He did not search for anyone who had fulfilled the law. Of course such a search would have been fruitless, but the point is that instead, He searched for those who had faith. Law is dependent upon the flesh, and faith and the flesh are continually in opposition to each other. Faith forsakes all confidence in the flesh, even in the best things of the flesh, and clings to God Who is Spirit (Phil.3). Faith is spiritual. The presence of faith verifies that God has bestowed a spiritual ability. Faith is an act of maturity of which the flesh is incapable. In fact, all too often, faith only flourishes as our flesh becomes weaker and weaker with the advance of years. Yet Paul says of the believers who have received a realization of the cross, "those of Christ Jesus crucify the flesh together with its passions and lusts" (Gal.5:24). And so the cross may be seen as the end of the flesh and also as the beginning of faith."

-J. Philip Scranton

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"The wisdom of the word of the cross is that God put aside the old humanity in the death of His Son, and He did this fully, not leaving any part to be finished by man. If God had let us have our way, where we would have been required to bring to completion what Christ had started, it never would have been done. The old humanity and all its weakness would remain without hope. But in God's wisdom He provided the full deliverance in the sacrifice of Christ. Hence any deliverance now from the distresses and sorrows of life will also come out of the word of the cross. We cannot have endurance and patience with joy by our own efforts. These must come to us as gracious gifts from God while we center our minds and hearts on what He has done."

-Dean H. Hough

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"The word of the cross has a far deeper significance than the death of Christ for our sins. It brings before us the manner of His death. The curse of the law was attached to such a death. It brought down the curse of God. On the human side, however, It showed what human religion and human wisdom can do. When God's Image was present among men they not only failed to appreciate Him, but displayed the innate hatred of their carnal religious hearts by dooming Him to the death of the vilest criminal. He Who spoke as never man spoke should have been welcomed by the wise men of the world, but they showed the essential stupidity of human wisdom by gibbeting the embodiment of all wisdom upon the ignominious cross. Yet God has made that scene of weakness and shame the brightest exhibition of His power and glory. Though it seems to sound the depths of powerless infamy, it eclipses all the power and wisdom of men. The word of the cross is still despised, but its proclamation Is salvation to all who believe. The height and summit of mans wisdom cannot reach to the divine folly." 

-A. E. Knoch 

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"I sense we are coming dangerously close to designing a new Christian culture that is not biblical. Instead of helping men find 'spiritual' solutions, we may end up only miring them down in 'man-made' rules and regulations. That would be tragic. We must do more than just ask men to conform or perform, we must reach their souls with the healing balm of the gospel." 

-Patrick Morley

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"Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis." 

- Albert Ellis

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"As editor of the largest newspaper in West Virginia, I scan hundreds of reports daily and I am amazed by the frequency with which religion causes people to kill each other. It is a nearly universal pattern, undercutting the common assumption that religion makes people kind and tolerant." 

-James Haught

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"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."

-Mark Twain

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"Paul did not preach himself, much less ask others to be good and do good to make themselves acceptable to God. No, his constant theme was Christ and His all-sufficient satisfaction for sin."

-Cornelius R. Stam

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"Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

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"Unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another."

-George Lichtinberg

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“The underlying foundation of all religion is performance – whether it’s a tribal dance around a campfire to satisfy the fire god, or a dead religious activity performed week after week by an evangelical Christian with the intent of impressing his God. It’s all religious performance, and God isn’t impressed by our performance. What impresses Him is faith.”  

-Steve McVey

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"It makes no difference if your religion has a hundred requirements, a million requirements, or only one requirement. A requirement is a requirement, and requirements earmark religions. Religion is man standing on his head for God. The truth is that God is standing on His head for man. But people in religions are too busy doing their thing to even notice that God is doing His."

-Martin Zender

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"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."

-Winston Churchill

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-Robert F. Capon

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-Wade Akins

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-Oscar Wilde

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-Thomas W. Hanford

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