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"For the time will come when
they will not endure sound doctrine;
but wanting to have their ears tickled,
they will accumulate for themselves teachers
in accordance to their own desires,
and will turn away their ears from the truth
and will turn aside to myths."
-2 Timothy 4:3-4
ROB BELL FALSE PREMISE #4. "When we read 'eternal punishment'...Jesus is not talking about forever as we think of forever" - Rob Bell
"So when we read "eternal punishment, "
it's important that we don't read
categories and concepts into a phrase
that aren't there. Jesus isn't talking
about forever as we think of forever."
-Love Wins, p. 92
Rob Bell is the first to admit that "first and foremost I'm a pastor." He is not a theologian, which this book painfully illustrates. Bell's argument that "eternal punishment" doesn't mean what it says (thereby discrediting the greatest Greek linguists and Bible translaters that the last twenty centuries have ever known), is nonsensical.
Bell arues that the Greek word aion (he then unknowingly? refers to Matthew 25 where the term he refers to is actually "aionios"), has a variety of meanings. Generally translated as "eternal," "forever," "forever more," and "eternity," aion can also mean simply a "period of time." While Bell is technically accurate, his reasoning is absurd.
If the "Bible translation according to Rob Bell" is accurate, consider the following changes that must be made in the most popular and well known Bible verse ever:
"For God so loved the world,
that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in Him shall
not perish, but...
have life for a period of time."
-John 3:16 according to Rob Bell
And then, perhaps most non-sensical of all, the Bible actually teaches,
"While we look not at the things
which are seen, but at the things which
are not seen; for the things which are seen
are temporal, but the things
which are not seen are (aionios) eternal."
-2 Corinthians 4:18
But Rob Bell's translation would have to say,
"While we look not at the things
which are seen, but at the things which
are not seen; for the things which are seen
are temporal, but the things
which are not seen are...temporal."
-2 Corinthians 4:18 according to Rob Bell
And there are no less than six! other "false premises" that I have found in Rob Bell's book, Love Wins. Suffice it to say that Jesus warned of these last days,
"False Christs and false prophets
will arise...so as to mislead,
if possible, even the elect."-Matthew 24:24
I have no doubt that Mr. Bell is a sincere pastor who loves people very much, however, it must be said that tragically, the book Love Wins represents a "false Christ" written by a "false prophet."
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