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What Is Hell? Book Stirs Debate About Afterlife
By not in system - AOL NewsRALEIGH, N.C. - What does hell mean to you? Is it an endless nightmare for sinners and unsaved souls, as mainstream Christianity has taught for centuries? Or is hell here on Earth, in the distractions, addictions and emptiness of daily life? Those ideas are receiving fresh scrutiny from some believers after a prominent evangelical pastor questioned the traditional idea of hell in his new book, "Love Wins." Even before Rob Bell's book was published this month, religious leaders and their followers were branding it heresy, hailing it as a breakthrough or landing somewhere in the middle. ...
A UFO Is Still a UFO: From Antiquity to Today
By Lee Speigel - AOL NewsCircular ships, vertical aerial cylinders, spheres, disks, wheels in the sky, hat-shaped things, flying pillars or columns and triangular-shaped objects. At first glance, you might think those are common, almost daily, descriptions of UFOs reported by eyewitnesses. Well, yes ... sort of. Those are the actual words, found in ancient texts, that characterize unidentified flying objects, spanning biblical accounts through the 1800s. And that's exactly what two leading researchers have done: trace the huge numbers of UFOs reported that couldn't possibly be attributed to or misinterpreted as ...
Ted Haggard Acknowledges He's Bisexual: A Brief History of His Sexual Orientation Scandal [VIDEOS]
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsIs that his final answer? In a new GQ profile, the Rev. Ted Haggard opens up about his sexual orientation, which has been the source of many rumors and revelations over the years. "Here's where I really am on this issue," he says. "I think that probably, if I were 21 in this society, I would identify myself as a bisexual." Haggard went on to explain that at his age (54), "I can have enforced boundaries in my life. ... I can be who I am and exclusively have sex with my wife and be perfectly satisfied." In 2006, Haggard resigned his post as president of the National Association of ...
Doomsday Is Just Another Day for End-Time Evangelist
By David Moye - AOL NewsWhat would you do if you knew the world was going to end? Family Radio Worldwide evangelist Harold Camping has received a lot of attention in the last few days for announcing the exact date of the Rapture -- May 21, 2011 -- but he tells AOL Weird News that he's not making any big plans for the big day. "The Bible says the end-times will come to those who are occupied, so I will just continue working and doing the job." Camping, an 89-year-old former civil engineer-turned-biblical scholar, says he reached his conclusion after 70 years of intense study -- and a few incorrect interpretations. ...
May 21 Is Judgment Day? Harold Camping's Latest Doomsday Prediction
By Dave Thier - AOL NewsIf the "biblical" scale flooding in Australia and the mass die-off of fish, birds and bees weren't proof enough, a growing chorus of doomsayers say that they have proof that the end of days is quickly approaching. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, former civil engineer Harold Camping is one of the leading voices of the doomsday movement. After doing some number crunching based on biblical figures, Camping has apparently come up with a new and improved expiration date for the human race: May 21, 2011. Camping previously thought that the world was going to end on Sept. 6, 1994, but ...
Armageddon Fortress May Hold Keys to History
By Matthew Kalman - AOL NewsMEGIDDO, Israel -- The Book of Revelation says the biblical fortress of Armageddon will be the site of an apocalyptic battle between good and evil at the end of time. Scientists believe it could also be the place where time begins -- at least for archaeology. In a groundbreaking new project, scholars are using the rich archaeological remains that soar more than 50 feet above the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel to synchronize the clocks of the ancient world and create the first definitive calendar of human history. Wikimedia Commons The ruins atop Megiddo in Israel may look like ...
Close Encounters of the Sacred Kind
By Lee Speigel - AOL News
(Oct. 1) -- A group of people has a mass sighting of a huge, airborne glowing object that follows them for many miles and even protects them from attack. Someone is seen being lifted into the sky on a beam of light. A man witnesses unexplained circular vehicles with living creatures on board. Pretty much sounds like your typical, modern-day UFO sightings, right? Wrong. These are vivid accounts of stories from the Old and New Testaments. "If UFOs are some type of intelligent power from another world, they may have been around for millions of years and may have been involved in the development ...
Roger Ebert Tweets Rebuttal to Christine O'Donnell's Evolution Comments
By not in system - AOL News(Sept. 27) -- From witches to monkeys. No, it's not time for another "Wizard of Oz" retrospective, but you could be forgiven for thinking as much given the amount of attention surrounding current Delaware GOP senatorial candidate Christine O'Donnell's prior life as a TV pundit or, more specifically, a few of her key controversial comments about said topics. Over the weekend, Bill Maher aired a 12-year-old clip of O'Donnell on his previous show "Politically Incorrect," in which she argued that "evolution is a myth" and asks "Why aren't monkeys still evolving into humans?" To answer her ...
Pope's Astronomer Would Baptize ET
By Lee Speigel - AOL News
(Sept. 24) – If extraterrestrials exist, then they may have souls, and if they'd like to be baptized, a Vatican astronomer has offered to reach out and touch them. "I'd be delighted if we found life elsewhere and delighted if we found intelligent life elsewhere," Guy Consolmagno, a planetary scientist at the Vatican observatory, told The Guardian. Speaking just before last week's British Science Festival, Consolmagno, curator of Pope Benedict XVI's meteorite collection, suggested that the odds of the human race finding and being able to communicate with aliens are probably ...
Opinion: Bishop Long and What's Long Overdue for Christians
By Michael Arceneaux - AOL News(Sept. 24) -- In the eyes of Bishop Eddie Long, "homosexuality is a manifestation of the fallen man." Given Long's history of vitriolic criticism of gays, it's easy to revel in the idea of him turning out to be another self-hating hypocrite who had to turn to teenage boys to deal with the man he truly is. Unfortunately, I worry that even if the "sexual coercion" charges leveled against Long by three young men are proven true, churchgoers may still use this lawsuit to further deepen their mistrust of homosexuals. If so, it will be another missed opportunity for many Christians to wake up and ...
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