Love Wins

Kevin DeYoung wrote a very thorough and extensive review of Rob Bell's new book "Love Wins." You can read it here.

Here is a quote from Rob Bell in the book:

Millions have been taught that if they don’t believe, if they don’t accept in the right way according to the person telling them the gospel, and they were hit by a car and
died later that same day, God would have no choice but to punish them forever in
conscious torment in hell. God would, in essence, become a fundamentally different
being to them in that moment of death, a different being to them forever. A loving
heavenly father who will go to extraordinary lengths to have a relationship with
them would, in the blink of an eye, become a cruel, mean, vicious tormenter who
would insure that they would have no escape from an endless future of agony.
If there was an earthly father who was like that, we would call the authorities.
If there was an actual human dad who was that volatile, we would contact child
protection services immediately.
If God can switch gears like that, switch entire modes of being that quickly, that
raises a thousand questions about whether a being like this could ever be trusted.
Let alone be good.
Loving one moment, vicious the next. Kind and compassionate, only to become
cruel and relentless in the blink of an eye.
Does God become somebody totally different the moment you die?
That kind of God is simply devastating. Psychologically crushing. We can’t bear it.
No one can. . . . That God is terrifying and traumatizing and unbearable.

Very sad departure from the truth by someone who influences so many.

This is a perfect example as to why we need to know and understand the truth of God's word.

Ephesians 4:14
so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.