Love Wins

Rob Bell reveals a secret deep in the heart of millions of Christians–they don’t believe what they have been taught are the essential truths of their faith. Out of respect for their tradition, they keep quiet, confiding to a few close friends their doubts and questions about salvation, Jesus, and, of course, God.

Bell brings out to the open and faces squarely the questions on everyone’s mind: Does it really make sense that God is a loving, kind, compassionate God who wants to know people in a personal way, but if they reject this relationship with Jesus, they will be sent to hell where God will eternally punish them forever?

In Love Wins, Bell goes to the heart of these issues and argues that the church’s traditional understanding of heaven and hell is actually not taught by the Bible. Bell is emphatically not offering a new view of heaven and hell; instead, he closely examines every verse in the Bible on heaven and hell and shows what they really teach. And he discovers that Jesus’s most fundamental teaching about heaven and hell is, “Love wins.”

YAY! I have been waiting for this book since high school! Thank you Rob Bell

“In the current religious climate in America, it isn’t easy to develop an imagination, a thoroughly biblical imagination, that takes in the comprehensive and eternal work of Christ in all people and all circumstances in love and for salvation. Rob Bell goes a long way in helping us acquire just such an imagination. Love Wins accomplishes this without a trace of soft sentimentality and without compromising an inch of evangelical conviction in its proclamation of the good news that is most truly for all.”

- Eugene H. Peterson, Professor Emeritus of Spiritual Theology, Regent College, and author of The Message

People respond to love not perpetuating the threat of hell, scare tactics and rigid interpretations on various theologies. The arrogance, snobbery and religious pride of elitist 'Christians' is so annoying and such a turn off... why would anyone reject this? Love does win. Duh. Rob Bell's books/ideas are beautiful and real and NOT at all unbiblical. He's just a man who dares to think outside the box much like another scandalous man of his day, Jesus and I for one dig it. If you've read my older blog about Hell The Book of Raven: What the Hell? you know my stance on it steaming from research done years ago while attending my christian high school and rejecting at my very core the demand that I believe in the eternal suffering doctrine of hell whilst also believing God is love, rubbish. Being unafraid to challenge what others take on authority has made it necessary for me too search out the truth myself and I am thankful for that because it has made me take a deeper look at what I chose to believe. Check out this blog about his forthcoming book 'Love Wins' reviewed by someone who has ACTUALLY read it.

http://being-the-body.blogspot.com/2011/02/love-wins.html