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Bell encourages Christians to ask big and difficult questions about the nature of God, Jesus, and a marketing scheme that says God punished non-believers in hell - for ETERNITY - if the correct formula isn't adopted in this life. This schema establishes a church full of people with a ticket OUT of punishment, instead of a church full of people living into a life of love and abundance and inviting others to do the same.
Bell effectively re-claims a loving and generous nature for God, with Jesus as a incarnated representation of the perpetually open invitation to love and relationship. Hell, then, is our own distance for God which is experienced in this life and beyond, but not an eternal distance. This theology dove-tales with a theology of universal restoration held by many early Brethren, a belief I hold strongly, but I've rarely heard it in popular Christianity.
Bell effectively re-claims a loving and generous nature for God, with Jesus as a incarnated representation of the perpetually open invitation to love and relationship. Hell, then, is our own distance for God which is experienced in this life and beyond, but not an eternal distance. This theology dove-tales with a theology of universal restoration held by many early Brethren, a belief I hold strongly, but I've rarely heard it in popular Christianity.