Love Wins? Who's the Ref!

Call me crazy but just finished listening to Rob Bell read, "Love Wins". It is his new book with the subtitle, "A book about Heaven, Hell, and the fate of every person who ever lived" As a public service to my Christian and Agnostic friends, I will summarize the high points for you.

1. Heaven will be here on earth. Jesus will rebuild it in a massive remodel.

2. Hell is now when bad things happen, maybe later when we die we may be uncomfortable a while but not like actual fire and stuff. We can talk to people in heaven just like the rich man in the Bible. Hell is like the diagram here.

3. Rob says the Bible is clear that God is Love and won't let anyone suffer long.

4. EVERYONE will end up in Heaven. It doesn't matter what you do. God has given you "Freedom" to ignore him. He'll save you anyhow. So-o-o quit feeling guilty about church stuff, sin and other worries. It doesn't matter if you are Hitler or Mother Teresa in the end.

5. There is NO hell! Reminds me of an old joke. The difference between Northern Baptists and Southern Baptists. "Northern Baptist say, "There ain't no Hell." Southern Baptists say, "The Hell there ain't!"

and last: Even though it doesn't matter because you and everyone who ever lived are going to live together on our blue planet. keep reading Rob Bell's theology because it makes him money in his current heaven.

It is interesting that everyone from John Piper to Francis Chan has risen up to challenge him.

It is my humble uneducated opinion that Bell is full of Crap! It makes a good coffee table book for any Unitarian.