“Hell is our refusal to trust God’s retelling of our story.”
Now when Rob Bell says, I’m not a universalist, I believe in hell, you need to understand in his book what he means is he’s talked to some people who have had some really tough lives and are going through rough things and that’s hell. That’s not the hell of scripture and that’s not the actual issue…there’s something about justice, there’s something about God’s holiness, and there’s something about the necessity of the demonstration of God’s justice that’s all bound up in what the cross is all about, and that’s gone, that has been evacuated from Rob Bell’s gospel, it’s not there anymore. I was very appreciative that one of the first full reviews pointed out that Rob Bell’s version of God’s love is twisted, it’s not biblical, it’s that kind of liberal, ooey gooey love that God must have but we would never respect any human being who had the same kind of love. We would never respect a human being who has the kind of love that liberalism asserts God has; undifferentiated, no categories to it, it’s clearly unbiblical.
Dr. James White from The Dividing Line program March 24, 2011
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