Rob Bell Tells How 'Love Wins' Led to Mars Hill Departure

Christian Post ^ | December 3, 2012 | Katherine Weber

[SoFloFreeper]

So what is the article talking about? :(

[Albion Wilde]

Your Best Purpose Driven Life, something something something.

Thanks!

[SoFloFreeper]

Ultimately, Bell and his wife chose to leave their West Michigan church and seek a new way of life in California, where Bell and Carlton Cuse, producer of the hit TV series "Lost", are teaming up to work on a "faith-inflected talk show."

Oh boy.

[circlecity]

"If he didn't say that there was no Hell, what did he say and why did he get dumped by Mars Hill?"

Essentially what he said was that everybody makes it to Heaven. That even after one dies God continues to shower his love on them to such an extent that even the hardest, most evid heart eventually succombs to such love and finally embraces God, thus saving them. Universalism.

[Belteshazzar]

So, what we have is a very bright, inquisitive, ambitious man with a flair for both teaching and attracting people. This bit of information from the Wiki article on him helps explain what got him started:

“Bell received his bachelor’s degree in 1992 from Wheaton and taught water skiing in the summers at Wheaton College’s Honey Rock Camp, making about thirty dollars a week. During this time, Bell offered to teach a Christian message to the camp counselors after no pastor could be found. He taught a message about rest. Bell was later approached by several people, each of them telling him that he should pursue teaching as a career.”

Just because one can do something - whether rightly or not - does not mean that one should do something. “Behold, I am against those who prophesy lying dreams, declares the LORD, and who tell them and lead My people astray by their lies and their recklessness, when I did not send them or charge them. So they do not profit this people at all, declares the LORD.” (Jeremiah 23:32)

Doctrinal oversight, while strongly affirmed in the Scriptures, is virtually non-existent in many American denominations. God has a way of doing things that in both timing and manner are at complete variance with the way of man. We short circuit it to our and others’ peril.

Sadly, Rob Bell is nothing more or less than a false prophet, talented, yes, and false. I would assume the same could be said of many in Jeremiah’s day.