Note the loaded way Bell frames the issue, speaking of a “select, few christians” in order to appeal to the egalitarian impulses of his readers, as if the difference between heaven and hell is a matter of social status to those of us who believe in God’s righteous Judgment.
God is the coach of one team and satan the coach of another, and points are souls. According to the bible, at the end of the game satan wins, five to one, but God beats him up in the parking lot after the game, so God wins.
I haven’t seen Come Sunday yet, but I still want to. It’s a fascinating story.
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The error of this posting is that Christ died and atoned for your sins or did he not? Is there no propitiation? Did Christ die for nothing? What does the Hebrew word “Sheol” mean? How about the definition of the Greek word “ Hades”. Let’s look at the Aramaic word used by our Savior, Jesus, “ Gehenna “ All have nothing to do with “eternal life” in a burning “hell” but express a total non existence. Note that the ONLY “eternal life” is through Christ as He stated in John 3:16. You aren’t saying HE was wrong, are you? All this was constructed in the King James version ,1600 years after Christ, along with the word “ Church” which was not in the bible at all until then. Scholars think the King James was a radical attempt to gain control over believers. It worked magnificently but it was all a lie.
Mr. Clueless there doesn't seem to get that if people didn't have hell to avoid, the message of the gospel and cross is meaningless.