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Bill Wiese, a former real estate broker, purports that on November 22, 1998 at 11:00 p.m. he fell asleep alongside his wife Annette and woke up 3:00 a.m. the next morning in the fiery pit of hell, which he describes in a book entitled 23 Minutes in Hell (Lake Mary, FL: Charisma House, 2006). Naked inside a fifteen by ten foot stone prison cell, Wiese testifies to being tortured by four demonic creatures that stood ten to thirteen feet tall that had the form of humans with grotesque reptilian features. After crawling out of his cell, he witnessed a full panorama of hell’s utter darkness and unquenchable fire. He felt intense physical physical pain, experienced an unquenchable thirst, smelled foul odors far worst than any putrid thing in the world of the living, heard the screams of a myriad of tortured souls, and felt the utter hopelessness of those who come to realize escape to be futile, for God kept out of his thought process the very idea of a savior (1-14). After 23 minutes in...

Discuss the origins of the universe and one is bound to get into some debate on subjects like the nature of science and religion, Darwinian naturalism, evolution, intelligent design, creation science, creation ex nihilo , or the age of the earth. Much of the discussion centers on how the material universe came about. Naturally, the origins question must consider the creation account in Genesis 1, and the possible implications, if any, the biblical chapter has in the nature of science and religion debate. Many Christian interpreters understand the days of creation to be descriptive of the processes out of which the material universe came into existence; for some the universe came about in creative acts done over a period of six 24-hour days, whereas others stretch the creative acts over six indefinite but finite periods of time extending millions of years called day-ages. An important angle the Bible student must take into account is the role the Ancient Near East (ANE) worldview played...