No Place Like Hell

[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by manna-man

I might add that I am not alone with this viewpoint. Many believe as I do. Including scholars of various degrees.

Isn't it amazing the wide variety of things believers think!? I meet with people who hold various views on hell, dispensationalism, Calvinism, old/young earth . . . Good thing our oneness comes from the one Spirit!

And as has been said, whatever the final solution to sin looks like, needless to say it's not going to be a good thing for the people that must be dealt with accordingly! Some might think universalism lets everyone off scott-free, but from what I've read, most universalists think there will be at least some kind of retribution experienced before these ones are given the "free pass." So there's a lot of nuances to the different views.

And so we're clear (this should be obvious), whether we believe in the traditional eternal, conscious torment idea, or in universalism, or in annihilism, it's not an essential doctrine that prevents believers from freely fellowshipping in the least. We are one in our knowing that all need to be saved and avoid whatever the negative consequences await the unrepentant.