Dean, like Bell, seems to take hell as a punitive place where sins are paid for much like the idea of purgatory. Except, of course, everyone gets to go. Dean also places free-will as important and holds that although all will ultimately believe it is not a forced type of belief. Rather, we will "all be united in perfect love to God and each other".
Every nonuniversalist at the very least ought to hope that the universalists are right.
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ReplyDeleteI did a brief comparison of Bell's position with that of universalist Paul Dean here: Universalism: Rob Bell and Paul Dean.
Dean, like Bell, seems to take hell as a punitive place where sins are paid for much like the idea of purgatory. Except, of course, everyone gets to go. Dean also places free-will as important and holds that although all will ultimately believe it is not a forced type of belief. Rather, we will "all be united in perfect love to God and each other".
Do their beliefs line-up? I think so...
Rob Bell is the Ed Wood of Emerg/ Christianity.
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