Fresh, Clear Insights

Aside from my own perspective, however, you can get a sense of the book’s theological direction from the description itself: This is the line that I think will define Bell’s theological arguments here in the book, which also is inline with info I’ve received regarding the book itself: “Bell addresses one of the most controversial issues of faith—the afterlife—arguing that a loving God would never sentence human souls to eternal suffering.” … If Rob Bell argues that hell is simply a Western, post-Enlightenment concept that does not exist and is “empty” in the sense that no one will be judged negatively by God and that you can reject Jesus and still find His new reality (a.k.a. be saved), he is not teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ and is actually teaching something that opposes the teachings of Jesus Himself, let alone the apostolic witness and historic Christian faith.