Love Wins

224 pages

Published March 26, 2011 by HarperOne.

ISBN:
978-0-06-204964-3
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4 stars (9 reviews)

Millions of Christians have struggled with how to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of people over thousands of years only to select a few to go to heaven and everyone else to suffer forever in hell? Is this acceptable to God? How is this "good news"? Troubling questions -- so troubling that many have lost their faith because of them. Others only whisper the questions to themselves, fearing or being taught that they might lose their faith and their church if they ask them out loud. But what if these questions trouble us for good reason? What if the story of heaven and hell we have been taught is not, in fact, what the Bible teaches? What if what Jesus meant by heaven, hell, and salvation are very different from how we have come to understand them? What if it is God who wants us …

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I thought this was a fun book. It took a little while for me to get used to the formatting, but then I realized that it made me read at a different pace, more like listening to a speaker than reading a book. It's pretty light fare, although it was awfully controversial in some circles; it's not new material, either. Bell takes what had previously been fairly inaccessible theology and lays it out for Everyman.

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