Re: The case for hell

Bell's book is nothing new or ground breaking.  C.S. Lewis made the same 
arguments, if allegorically, in The Great Divorce and George MacDonald, (Lewis 
claimed MacDonald as his master and a character in that book is based on him - 
if not named him - I'd have to double check on that).  And I'm sure that others 
were asking the same questions and/or making the same arguments long before they 
were.  


I know I've thought/argued/discussed the doctrine of hell since I was a 
teenager.  This media notion that this is something knew in Christendom is 
ridiculous.

Mike F.  




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>Could you summarize more what he says about it? What is the conclusion of his 
>book? 
 
Well, attempting to sum it up...hell is not just a future place, but a present 
reality, even for the living.  But hell still exists as a post death place..but 
it is not necessarily  permanent location for people.  It's not simply 
punishment-rather a refinement.  That for a time some would be there-but get 
eventual opportunities at acepting God's love and forgiveness (one would suppose 
that just like your point of the death bed, no amount of time would result in 
turning to God for some).  

 
I am piecing this together from reviews, not a personal reading.  I am trying to 
get a chance to sit down and really read the book solidly through...I got a copy 
a few weeks back... but I may not get to until I go on vacation at the end of 
May.  But Bell has been very to the point that he believes in hell.


Thom
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