I wrote it because these subjects carry enormous spiritual and emotional weight, yet Christians often approach them through shortcuts. Some people were frightened into belief by images designed to overwhelm them. Others reacted against that fear by treating judgment as an embarrassing doctrine we should outgrow. Both responses can miss Jesus.
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Reading Jesus Without Shortcuts · Volume 5 of 5 · Catalog 43194
Heaven, Hell, and Judgment
Love That Takes Us Seriously
Will Bourne reads Jesus’ warnings without turning hell into terror or judgment into denial.
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Will Bourne reads Jesus’ warnings without turning hell into terror or judgment into denial. Distinguishing biblical images, presenting major Christian interpretations fairly, and centering bodily resurrection and renewed creation, the book shows how grace, freedom, consequence, mercy, safeguarding, and final justice belong together under the lordship of Christ.
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