Are you as forgiving as God is?

[deacon blues]

Originally Posted by Timmy

And God will (in the future!) love us, even as He is throwing us into the lake of fire. Cool.

(Don't even try to say He won't do that; that we will send ourselves to hell. That is utterly absurd, and it isn't even in the Bible!)

God is holy and God is love. Every judgment He makes is righteous. There will be no injustice in His casting the wicked into the lake of fire. If a human being was doing it, it would be evil. Our Holy God can and will do it, and it will not be a contradiction to either His holiness or His love for humanity. He is not willing that any should perish but that all would come to repentance. But many will perish.

[Titus2woman]

Originally Posted by deacon blues

God is holy and God is love. Every judgment He makes is righteous. There will be no injustice in His casting the wicked into the lake of fire. If a human being was doing it, it would be evil. Our Holy God can and will do it, and it will not be a contradiction to either His holiness or His love for humanity. He is not willing that any should perish but that all would come to repentance. But many will perish.

Originally Posted by deacon blues

Rob Bell is the author and he's promoting universalism. That isn a teaching that no one will be lost, no one goes to hell. It's a false doctrine and Bell has fallen out of favor with many.

I am sure he is out of favor with all those who love to spend their time expounding on who all is headed to (or already in) HELL.

Given your view or his view I think I like his better. If God is doing something that would be evil if someone else did it, guess what??? It would be evil. And He as much as says so:

I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things. Isaiah 45:7

I still like to believe that in his relationship with humanity, good prevails.