The Outer Darkness Is Not the Lake of Fire

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A friend asked me if I saw an article by Hampton Keathley IV at the Bible.org website entitled, “The Outer Darkness: Heaven’s Suburb or Hell?” You can see it here.  I’ve known Keathley for a long time. He is a friend and a Free Grace guy.   The expression the outer darkness (or the darkness outside) only occurs three times in
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The Last Words in Ecclesiastes (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)

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Ecclesiastes is a difficult book. The reason is probably because Solomon was seeking pleasure and wisdom from a humanistic perspective. But by the time he gets to the end of the book, Solomon has clearly shown that from a humanistic perspective, life has no meaning or purpose. It is all vain. Solomon concludes in this way, “Fear God
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No Man Is an Island (Romans 14:1-26)

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In 1624 English poet John Donne wrote a poem whose first line reads, “No man is an island entire of itself…” He went on in the same short poem to write, “any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind. And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”   Donne was
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Will Every Believer Be Praised by Jesus at the Bema? — 1 Corinthians 4:5i 

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I attended a conference in which a main session speaker said that the statement by Paul, “then each one’s praise will come from God” (1 Cor 4:5), shows that every believer will have some good works and will receive at least some praise at the Judgment Seat of Christ (Bema). I’ve heard that claim on many occasions,
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