When Will God Separate the Wicked and the Just?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Steve Elkins are concluding a short series about the kingdom parables in Matthew’s gospel. What is the parable on the pearl of great price about? What does it mean? And what about the parable of the dragnet? What is it about? Listen and see!
How Can a Loving God Send Anyone to Hell? Also: What Is Hell Like?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Today, Bob Wilkin and Philippe Sterling are answering at least three questions about hell. There is a lot of teaching about hell that does not match up with what the Bible says. So what does the Bible say about it all? Please listen to this episode to find out.

Current Issues in Salvation, Part 2: Various Rejections of ECT

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Eternal Conscious Torment (ECT) is the teaching of Scripture (cf. John 3:14-18; Heb 9:27; Rev 14:11; 20:15). However, many schools and many pastors are now rejecting ECT in light of various other views. Those other views include universalism (everyone will eventually be saved), conditional immortality (= annihilationism), and unconscious torment (like an eternal coma). Back
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What Part of Bible Doctrine is Essential to Believe in Order to Be Saved? Also Why Does God Allow False and Confusing Saving Messages to Exist?
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Welcome to Grace in Focus radio. Bob and Shawn will be discussing the content of saving faith. Specifically, we will hear the guy’s address whether or not a person has to believe in hell in order to be saved. What is essential to believe in order to be saved? The guys will unpack this issue
Is it Necessary to Believe in Eternal Conscious Torment to be Saved?
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Annihilationism says that those who believe in Christ are immortal and those who don’t believe will die eternally. Bob and Shawn discuss why this idea is untrue and defend the belief of Eternal Concious Torment (ECT) with the Scriptures that mention it.

Immortality Is Not Eternal Life 

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Free Grace Theology impacts the issue of final punishment. The question is, what happens to unbelievers after the Great White Throne Judgment? One way that Free Grace makes a difference is relatively subtle. We emphasize that, according to Jesus’ promise, believers have eternal life as a present possession (John 3:16, 36; 5:24; 6:47). Believers do
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Aaron Rodgers Rejects Eternal Conscious Torment

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Famed Super Bowl winning and future Hall of Fame quarterback of the Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers, lit up the internet when he spoke about how he rejected the faith of his family, the faith he was raised in. In an article entitled, “NFL Quarterback Aaron Rodgers Questions How Anyone Could Believe in God” (which
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What Edward Fudge Can’t Believe about The Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31)

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Now that our revised The Grace New Testament Commentary is out, I can go back to finishing up two or three book projects, such as on the “atonement” and “hell.” My book on hell will, so far (I can still be convinced of a different view), defend eternal conscious torment (ECT)—though not the ECT of
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Given Eternal Conscious Torment, Is God’s Justice Ever Satisfied?

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A moral objection to eternal conscious torment (ECT) is that if sinners are tormented in hell for all eternity (or, to be more precise, the lake of fire), then God’s justice is never satisfied. Think of it like a mortgage—at some point, you pay it off and satisfy the debt. Or, with a prison sentence,
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