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jacquiesueb 's review for:
Erasing Hell: What God Said about Eternity, and the Things We've Made Up
by Francis Chan, Preston M. Sprinkle
Five stars for the sheer necessity and urgency of the topic, but the unresolved, un-addressed questions lent some disjointedness to the book, so four stars overall. I loved Chan's Crazy Love (a book that was both encouraging and convicting), and I expected more of the same with Erasing Hell, but my jury's still out on how I felt about this particular book.
Chan did his homework, to be sure. Scriptural truth abounds, and lots of tough love is dealt out. I guess my lack-of-a-star in this review stems from my own unanswered questions about the matter: about how hell, not heaven, is the default setting for humankind -- that really, just by being born, we're already damned. I understand that, in His divine authority, God knows what He's doing, but I walked away from this book a little more muddled about hell than I had been before picking it up.
That being said, it's a great book to shake believers from their complacency (or even denial) about the state of the afterlife. I'd recommend it for that reason alone because, as Chan says, we can't afford to be wrong about hell.
Chan did his homework, to be sure. Scriptural truth abounds, and lots of tough love is dealt out. I guess my lack-of-a-star in this review stems from my own unanswered questions about the matter: about how hell, not heaven, is the default setting for humankind -- that really, just by being born, we're already damned. I understand that, in His divine authority, God knows what He's doing, but I walked away from this book a little more muddled about hell than I had been before picking it up.
That being said, it's a great book to shake believers from their complacency (or even denial) about the state of the afterlife. I'd recommend it for that reason alone because, as Chan says, we can't afford to be wrong about hell.