About This Video
Shawn McCraney challenges traditional Evangelical views on the afterlife, arguing that before Christ, everyone went to "hell" (a state of separation from God) divided into paradise and prison, but after Christ's victory over sin and death, everyone now goes to a universal heavenly realm with two divisions: inside the Kingdom for the faithful and outside for others. He criticizes the inconsistency of those who accept the historical concept of universal separation from God pre-Christ yet reject the notion of a post-Christ universal heavenly realm with divisions.
Heart of the Matter Short Show
This is Heart of the MatterTGNN’s original show where Shawn McCraney deconstructed religion and developed fulfilled theology. SHORT show, where we are . . .
And I’m your host, Shawn McCraneyFounder of TGNN and developer of the fulfilled perspective—calling people to faith outside of religion.. Show 19s Think about this, you haters of heaven! February 21st 2021 Taped. February 22nd 2021 Aired.
Criticism from Evangelicals
I have been criticized by Evangelicals for a stance I began to take and make six or seven years ago relative to eternal punishment. Of course, the standard non-thinking tradition among Evangelicals is that when someone dies they either go to heaven to live with God forever or they go to hell and live in burning punishment forever. Standard Christian fare.
I came to see a very different message from the Bible itself not only from the Greek words used but also from the text and its descriptions of the afterlife in the former age, and then how the text of Revelation 21 through 22:5 describes the afterlife once Christ has come with reward and punishment before taking His Bride.
A New Perspective on the Afterlife
I was having a conversation with my daughter Cassidy the other day and she pointed something out that I never considered in my stance that all people now go to a heavenly realm, with some going into the Kingdom of GodGod’s spiritual reign—fulfilled and present, not political or future. by faith, and the rest remaining outside the City gates of that glorified place. What she said sort of rocked my understanding and took me to an even more committed place in my stance. And what she said was this:
That may Christians bemoan the teaching that all go to a heaven realm after this life due to the finished victorious work of Jesus Christ, but why don’t they ever and ALSO bemoan the fact that EVERYBODY before Christ went to hell!?
Whoa. That’s true?
I mean everyone – Adam, Eve, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, David, Isaiah, John the Baptist – plus the rest of the entire world population that existed for thousand of years – all of them went to hell upon their physical deathSeparation from God—now overcome. Physical death remains, but it no longer separates us from life with God.! (With hell being defined as the covered place that was separated from the presence of God).
NOBODY after their physical death went to heaven but instead some went one of two places in sheol – to the prison part of hell, and others went to the paradise part of hell, but EVERYONE was in sheol or hell and all were separated from God completely. That was the state of things before Jesus Christ.
Why can we all readily, as believers, accept that this was the case for thousands of years and the fate of ALL people to ever live, and that God did not change this set up in the least, but we get all uptight and angry when, because of Jesus Christ and His total victory over sinMissing the mark of faith and love—no punishment, just lost growth or peace. and death, reconciled EVERYBODY to a heavenly realm, again composed of two divisions in the SAME PLACE – but now its heavenly?
Heaven and Hell Redefined
Again, hell was composed of two sections (if you will) a paradise and a prison – both being part of hell, and EVERYONE went there on earth. Then Jesus comes, and has His victory, and now EVERYONE when they die go to a heavenly realm, also composed of two destinations – those inside the Kingdom walls to live with God and Christ, and those who go to a destination outside the Kingdom walls who are separated from God.
Those of you who reject this biblically supported idea are really hypocritical and unfair and illogical in your assessment of things because you will readily embrace the fact that at one time in the history of Man EVERYONE at death experienced a universal location – hell – separation from God and landed in one of two locations, paradise for the faithful and prison for the rebellious BUT YOU MOCK the notion that the very same conditions exist only in the Reverse though, with EVERYONE at death going to a different UNIVERSAL location, but also consisting of two parts – those in the Kingdom of God and Christ, and those outside of it.
Chew on that, you haters of “heaven for all.”
And write your comments below! We’ll get to them on our Heart of the Matter long shows which air on Tuesday nights.
See you then.
