If you were to force people to do something against their free choice, you would be dehumanizing them. The option of forcing everyone to go to heaven is immoral, because it's dehumanizing; it strips them of the dignity of making… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share
If we are going to be wise, spiritual people prepared to meet the crises of our age, we must be a studying, learning community… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
“...the degree of someone's just punishment is not a function of how long it took to commit the deed; rather, it's a function of… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
“The current understanding of happiness identifies it as a pleasurable feeling. Pleasant feelings are surely better than unpleasant ones, but the problem today is that people are obsessively concerned with feeling happiness; people are slaves to their feelings. Feelings are wonderful servants but terrible masters. When people make happiness their goal, they do not find it and, as a result,… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share
“When God is making these judgements, his purpose is not to keep as many people out of hell as possible. His goal is to… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
The contemporary Christian mind is starved, and as a result we have small, impoverished souls. — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
Real life does not come naturally. It is counterintuitive. It is a skill we have to learn. That's because the way to real life… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs. — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
“You must understand that in the afterlife, our personalities reflect an adult situation anyway, so we can say for sure that there will be… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
“immortality of the soul is something of such vital importance to us that one must have lost all feeling not to care about knowing… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
In Scripture, faith involves placing trust in what you have reason to believe is true. Faith is not a blind, irrational leap into the… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
