CHAPTER 1
FLAMING HERETICS ARE REAL
SO,1 FOR EXAMPLE, why does someone decide one day after growing up as a self-described Christian who has gone to church for years—why doesthis person one day say, “You know what? There is no Hell.” Let’s start with the lie: becauselove, or so they say.
In fact,love is the go-to talking point for any number of heresies, such as the commonly associated heresy of Universalism. N.T. Wright summarizes the Universalist (cheap-substitute) view of salvation this way:
There are two Biblical ways of looking at salvation. One says that only Christian believers will be saved: the other says that all men will be saved. Since the latter is more loving, it must be true, because God is love.2 That about sums it up. We take the subject oflove, filter it through our feelings and subjective experiences without consulting any time-tested objective standard. Then, we redefine the world through the post-modern lens of make-it-up-as-you-go-along because the last person to arrive on the world scene is the most evolved and therefore, the smartest and most qualified to address and interpret the problems of the universe. No historical understanding or Biblical literacy required, just brazen narcissism dressed up in the spirit of the age.
How ironic then, that those who say, “there-is-no-Hell,” could often be characterized as full of scorn for truth,
