I don't remember there being
a conversation about hell.
Not exact matches
In other words, Love Wins serves as a good starting point for engaging in better
conversations about heaven and
hell, but a poor ending point.
Joe and Jane (who are not Christians, as evidenced by a previous
conversation in which they brag
about drinking alcohol and having sex), go straight to
hell, where they are told by Satan (played by one of the church deacons) that they are destined to spend eternity burning in the Lake of Fire.
What is perhaps most frustrating
about engaging in such
conversations within the evangelical community in particular, however, is that differences regarding things like Calvinism and Arminianism, baptism, heaven and
hell, gender roles, homosexuality, and atonement theories often disintegrate into harsh accusations in which we question one another's commitment to Scripture.
They might argue even (against Paul) that doing such things sends people to
hell, rather than seeing references to the «Kingdom of God» or «Kingdom of Heaven» as Jesus used them, as being
about out lives here and now and what we might accomplish as we follow Christ (to which a «beneficial»
conversation is much more fitting).
It would've been a bit too open - handed for Come Sunday to show a full - on theological debate
about hell, but in the absence of that
conversation, it's important to show both sides in full.
Hell, I'm constantly talking
about how busy I am because I hear it's a good
conversation starter and makes people like you more.
Sure, we'll talk
about who is or isn't sleeping through the night and the
hell that is potty training, but most of our
conversations revolve around the same things as before we became parents: TV shows we're loving, our complicated relationship with food, how our then - boyfriends, now - husbands are annoying us this week.
If I were your instructor in such a course (and I have taught courses with this subject matter), and you kept maintaining these views, not only would I flunk you, but I would be having a
conversation with the dean
about how the
hell you got into the program in the first place.
I mean, I think I employ adults, but this is like trying to tell my kids to do something: They look at me for a second, and then run off and do whatever the
hell they want, like we didn't just have a very specific
conversation about expectations.