We have heard the question, “Can you imagine a world without God? What would it be like?” But, can you imagine God without a world? What would that God be like? Would he be different than the God we imagine from our experience as participants in his creation? That is one of my questions behind the [...]
“This ungodly furor [over what Rob Bell might believe about hell] presents an ideal time for everyone to examine the CENTRIST (and biblical, we insist!) view of hell — right there between the unbiblical extremes of unending conscious torment on the one hand, and universalism on the other hand. For resources of all sorts on [...]
“[The holy Roman Church] . . . firmly believes, professes and preaches that no one outside the Catholic Church, neither pagans, nor Jews, nor heretics, nor schismatics, can become partakers of eternal life . . . And no one can be saved, no matter how much he has given in alms, even if he sheds [...]
“If we have the freedom to choose these things now, that Jesus came to offer us and show us, then I assume that when you die, you can continue to choose these realities because love cannot co-opt the human heart’s ability to decide,” ”But after you die, we are firmly in the realm of speculation.”
A good God would not send anyone to hell – to experience eternal conscious torment. The world is rejecting Christianity because it is presented as an endless list of absurdities and inconsistencies and they say “why would I ever want to be a part of that?”