J.P. Moreland

“...this life is the incubation period!”

— J.P. Moreland

Love God with all your mind...

— J.P. Moreland

The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us…

— J.P. Moreland

No one will go to hell simply because all they needed was a little more time and they died prematurely.

— J.P. Moreland

The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls.

— J.P. Moreland

We need to admit the mind into Christian fellowship again. We need the mind disciplined in Christ, enlightened by faith, passionate for…

— J.P. Moreland

Real life does not come naturally. It is counterintuitive. It is a skill we have to learn. That's because the way to…

— J.P. Moreland

Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs.

— J.P. Moreland

“...people will be sentenced in accordance with their deeds...God's justice is proportional. There is not exactly the same justice for everyone who…

— J.P. Moreland

In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap…

— J.P. Moreland

“...the degree of someone's just punishment is not a function of how long it took to commit the deed; rather, it's a…

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If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying,…

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“...people in heaven will not be denied the privilege of enjoying their life just because they're consciously aware of hell. If they…

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“Second, when one tries to formulate a definition of knowledge or, more generally, when one investigates matters in epistemology, one does not…

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“Ought not a Minister to have, First, a good understanding, a clear apprehension, a sound judgment, and a capacity of reasoning with…

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The disciples had nothing to gain by lying and starting a new religion. They faced hardship, ridicule, hostility, and martyr's deaths. In…

— J.P. Moreland

“While forgiveness is an important part of the gospel, the good news goes beyond that. It amounts to the claim that the…

— J.P. Moreland

Instead of responding to these attacks with a vigorous intellectual counterpunch, many believers grew suspicious of intellectual issues altogether. To be sure,…

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“Here we must examine the classical understanding of happiness proclaimed by Moses, Solomon, Jesus, Aristotle, Plato, the church fathers and medieval theologians,…

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If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing…

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From space travel to organ transplants, one of the most important influences shaping the modern world is science. Amazingly, people who lived…

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Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel…

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“immortality of the soul is something of such vital importance to us that one must have lost all feeling not to care…

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“You must understand that in the afterlife, our personalities reflect an adult situation anyway, so we can say for sure that there…

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The soul is the ego, the ‘I,’ or the self, and it contains our consciousness. It also animates our body. That’s why…

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“...many atheists embrace Jesus as having been a great teacher, and yet he's the one who had the most to say about…

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“What hell does is recognize that people have intrinsic value. If God loves intrinsic value, then he has go to be a…

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“When God is making these judgements, his purpose is not to keep as many people out of hell as possible. His goal…

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“The gospel of the kingdom is an invitation to a different reality, a different way of living. The kingdom is a new…

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While the Christian faith clearly teaches that believers are to be involved as good citizens in the state, nevertheless, it is obvious…

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I would rather commit a sin of commission than a sin of omission, and the evangelical community is exactly the opposite. The…

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God maintains a delicate balance between keeping his existence sufficiently evident so people will know he's there and yet hiding his presence…

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“The current understanding of happiness identifies it as a pleasurable feeling. Pleasant feelings are surely better than unpleasant ones, but the problem…

— J.P. Moreland