The Slippery Emergent Slope

[Pastor Keith]

Originally Posted by notofworks

I stopped reading the article when the author drew conclusions while admitting he hasn't read the entire book. But I did watch the video and he didn't say anything that didn't make sense. I would be lying if I said I haven't struggled with the idea that God created mankind only to send nearly all of them, percentage-wise, to hell.

So in this video, he doesn't mess me up any, really. Is it "Universalism" to speculate about the eternity of the billions around the world who do not believe in Jesus as God? How many in this world have "trusted Christ" as traditional Christian faith calls for? If we exclude Catholics, the number gets pretty small compared to the number that populate the earth.

Is it really God's plan to send, maybe, 80+% of the earth to hell? I struggle with that.

So Bell asks some important questions in this clip and I think they deserve, at least, some introspection and not just quick condemnation from the conservative theology crowd who haven't yet read the book.

I hope that God saves everyone, but I only know what I see in scripture.

By the way the author read a number of the chapters, just not the entire book.