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By Rob Bell
Thousands of Christians have struggled with the right way to reconcile God's love and God's judgment: Has God created billions of individuals over hundreds of thousands of years basically to pick a number of to visit heaven and everybody else to endure perpetually in hell? is that this applicable to God? How is that this "good news?" Troubling questions--so troubling that many have misplaced their religion as a result of them. Others in simple terms whisper the inquiries to themselves, fearing or being taught that they could lose their religion and their church in the event that they ask them out loud. yet what if those questions hassle us for reliable cause? What if the tale of heaven and hell we've got been taught isn't, actually, what the Bible teaches? What if what Jesus intended through "heaven," "hell," and salvation" are very varied from how we now have come to appreciate them? What whether it is God who wishes us to stand those questions? writer, pastor, and cutting edge instructor Rob Bell provides a deeply biblical imaginative and prescient for rediscovering a richer, grander, more true, and extra spiritually enjoyable manner of figuring out heaven, hell, God, Jesus, salvation, and repentance. the result's the invention that the "good information" is way, far better than we ever imagined. Love wins.
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But not just any five. The first four of the commandments were understood as dealing with our relationship with GodJesus doesn't list any of those. The remaining six deal with our relationships with each other. Jesus mentions five of them, leaving one out. HERE IS THE NEW THERE I 29 The man hears Jesus's list of five and insists he's kept them all. " Did we miss something? The big words, the important words-"eternal life," "treasure," "heaven"-were all there in the conversation, but they weren't used in the ways that many Christians use them.
It's a book of responses to these questions. And so, away we go. First, heaven. 119 CHAPTER 2 HERE IS THE NEW THERE First, heaven. This is a photograph of a painting that hung on a wall in my grandmother's house from before I was born. As you can see, in the center of the picture is a massive cross, big enough for people to walk on. It hangs suspended in space, floating above an ominous red and black realm that threatens to swallow up whoever takes a wrong step. The people in the picture walking on the cross are clearly headed somewhere-and that somewhere is a city.
The God who gives new spirits and new hearts and new futures. Central to their vision of human flourishing in God's renewed world, then, was the prophets' announcement that a number of things that can survive in this world will not be able to survive in the world to come. Like war. Rape. Greed. Injustice. Violence. Pride. Division. Exploitation. Disgrace. HERE IS THE NEW THERE I 37 Their description of life in the age to come is both thrilling and unnerving at the same time. For the earth to be free of anything destructive or damaging, certain things have to be banished.