If you find a church community that supports you and your family and is a positive influence, I say join them. Maybe that means you keep some of your views private. It’s important, at least from my perspective, to be flexible on these things and not let doctrinal perspectives come between you and your wife.

Live in harmony with her and fulfill…

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Not sure whether Shawn still holds this view, but the theologian George MacDonald wrote a remarkable essay on the subject titled Justice. I highly recommend it.

MacDonald argues that the fires of hell are purifying rather than punitive. Their purpose is to burn away sin and ultimately restore those in hell to a right relationship with God.

Feel free to answer it on the show.

If sin has already been fully paid for, what’s the point of urging people to live better, more upright lives? Take someone addicted to porn or drugs. If those things make them happy, why should they quit? If everything is “paid in full” and there are no spiritual consequences, then why not just eat, drink, and be merry? Who cares?

Some will say…

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