Love Wins Analysis

Love Wins, the controversial book by author Rob Bell had received many criticisms by people from different theological standings. To start, I do not believe in everything said in the book, however, I did find some aspects which are very powerful. The book has gained its popularity or notoriety because Bell had argued the fact that our God who is loving would not want to leave anyone out and that perhaps He would even save those who otherwise never confessed their sins, repented and proclaimed that Jesus as the savior while they are alive on this earth. Therefore, the Hell as the place of punishment after death that we commonly think of may or may not exist. There are statements in Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived (HarperOne) [two stars], frankly if someone was to ask me, my
However, if one can accept what Bell said about Heaven, it is not too difficult to understand what he meant about Hell! He was talking about the same realm. If “Heaven is the realm where things are as God intends them to be” (Bell, 2011, p. 59). Then Hell is the realm where things are not as God intends them to be. Hell can start on earth as it can be after death. The questions on will everybody be saved or will some perish apart from God forever because of their choices? His answer was that “those are questions, or more accurately, those are the tensions we are free to leave fully intact. We don’t need to resolve them or answer them because we can’t, and so we simply respect them, creating space for the freedom that love requires”(Bell, 2011, p.115). The questions and the debates then are really not on the topic of whether Hell existed as some argued that Bell does not believe that there is Hell. Whether you believe that Bell is an universalist or not, the important thing is