"Love Wins"
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Frumundah FinnaticNew MemberOPHeaven and hell are choices we make and live with right now. "God gives us what we want," including the freedom to live apart from God (hell) or turn God's way (heaven).
• Death doesn't cut off the ability to repent. In his Bible, Bell sees no "infinite, eternal torment for things (people) did in their few finite years of life."
• Jesus makes salvation possible even for people who never know his name. "We have to allow for mystery," for people who "drink from the rock" of faith "without knowing who or what it was."
• Churches that don't allow for this are "misguided and toxic."
Small wonder that traditionalists call him a false teacher of a Jesus-optional Gospel, leading innocents to damnation and a traitor to the evangelical label.
http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/mind-soul/spirituality/2011-03-14-hell14_ST_N.htm
MonstBlitz;2232016 wrote:
It wouldn't surprise me if he is retained. Jeff Ireland is the nightmare that won't end. The **** stain you cannot flush. The Herpes for which there is no cure.
OhiophinphanmoderatorThis book should provoke a powerful debate in America. I will be curious as to how Bell defines "love". Given that Biblical Greek has nuances to it and God's love is understood to be "sacrifical" as opposed to "sentimental" which is the most common use today I will wait to see if Bell's ideas are embraced.
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