Our God Is a Consuming Fire

<p>What is the eternal punishment of the lost? </p><p>What is the eternal life that God promises his people? </p><p>What is this “hell” which is claimed as part of Christian belief but goes against our sense of justice and rightness?</p><p>Why were Adam and Eve thrown out of Eden?</p><p>Can a God of love send most of those he has made in his own image to a place of nonstop torment?</p><p>What is the connection between the current heaven and earth and the new heaven and earth that God promises?</p><p>Beginning with the tree of life and taking Hebrews 12.29 “Our God is a consuming fire” as his pivotal text Michael Greed addresses these and similar questions. His central argument is that there is only one fire in the Bible—our God who is a consuming purifying fire.</p>