Thank you so much for uploading this video. As a guilty believer who has become apathetic, lazy and bloated in regards to heaven and hell because of my comfortable and secure life, this was the perfect wake up call to view my faith and live for eternity instead of the here and now. Bless you 🙏

Ameen..... I have tears while praying at the end of the video, It is the best sermon/seminary I have heard for years. Thank you so much for these wonderful views and insights. YHWH Bless you and keep your spirit up and busy. Jeanette

Thank you. I love this faithful, Biblically sound preaching. It is surely all but absent from our modern churches.

My deeply humble prayer is that those who hold the traditional view of Hell would accept the Christians who hold to Conditional Immortality as faithful brothers and sisters in Christ. Who hold the view on strictly biblical grounds. And that they would discern and recognize the context of comments sometimes made, regarding this doctrine, which can be spoken of in the form of common sense terms as well as in philosophical reasoning to try to get this truth through the thick walls of tradition, girded by majority consensus over vast swaths of time these past two thousand years.

Those two diagnostic questions are enough...they were helpful.

I am a believer who affirms Conditional Immortality--annihilationism. I imagine most of you listening to Dr. Mohler have never entertained the idea that the Bible doesn't teach that God tortures people for all eternity because you have always been taught that the Bible says he does. I'd encourage you to go to the Rethinking Hell website and study. If you are willing, you will find the Biblical exegesis robust and even compelling.

No one has to believe in the existence of hell! One minute after your last breath you will know all about it! Too bad you can't change your mind then!

very encouraging

You are cordially invited to the Wedding And the Great Feast of the Lord Jesus Christ and His bride the Church to take Place in the Kingdom Of Heaven, really Really soon.

Hopefully this Robert Bell, is saved because if he just decided not FULLY PREACHED and TAUGHT the FULL gospel truth, doubt if his name is written in the lamb's book because taking away from God's word, takes away anyone's name of the book of life. Woe, to those that change God's word originally for modern false doctrine. HELL is taught and preached by our savior warning us to truly REPENT of our sins and believe and trust what HE has done on the cross and truly believe he was raised from the dead though shalt be saved.

If I were to die tonight, which due to my age and health is all very possible. In that case I would of course have come to the end of my existence and return to the same place I came before I was born, total oblivion, and since in all that time I suffered not the slightest inconvenience, so it will be thereafter. So that has nothing to fear. But assuming I was wrong and there really was some kind of God, who ask why I did not believe in him and why should I be admitted to his mansion; I would simply say: did not believe in any God because I never saw any evidence of a Deity, but during my life on earth I had always try to be the best human being I could possibly be, as decent, honest, truthful and kind; trying never to do any intentional harm to any fellow human being; And I would tell him that I was sure that would please him and expect to be received with open arms. I think I would be.

If you need hell to sell Jesus you don’t know your product

Hell was written about and feared in pagan sources (Mesopotamian, Persian, Greek, Roman) centuries before it was ever mentioned in the Bible. Homer, Plato, Lucian, Hesiod, the author of I Enoch...all these ancient authors (and more) wrote about some version of hell and it's inhabitants before the New Testament ever mentioned it or appropriated the terminology. Christians were not the first to teach or write about it. People are saved for eternity, not because of getting THE RIGHT view of hell, but because they have accepted Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. May God save us from adding to the simple truth of the Gospel and from acting as, know-it-all, Biblical gate keepers! The Gospel of saving grace is offered to all, not just "elect" theologians or "Christian" Pharisees who profess special status and divine, hidden knowledge unavailable to most people.

"Let's state the obvious, if that weren't true, Jesus wouldn't have told us" That says it all right there, you are beholden to what the book says jesus says. and yet a former christian apologist has something to say about this topic...

Gods word is Gods word- once we think put our views in it- weve corrupted the written word HELL IS REAL

Everyone has experienced heaven and hell on this earth. They are only a foretaste of the real ones in after life. Yearn for heaven, shun for hell.

This guy believes God predestined most of humanity to eternal conscious burning. Interesting.

Perhaps jesus said or did wrong or immoral things.

gerrymandering and cognitive dissonance with a heavy dose of special pleading topped off with obfuscation.

So....he's defending the basis of Dante as "irreducibly biblical"?! I wonder if he is also a fan of the witch hunters and Inquisitors of medieval times? Why does he mock the present, hard-won experiences of joy and happiness rooted in many modern discoveries? Is he longing for the "good ole days" of unquestioned religious authority and rampant superstitions? An era of human misery? Scary subtext in these "pious," nostalgic rantings. Also...not everything Jesus taught was meant to be taken as "objectively" true (i.e. Luke 16). This is why he taught using PARABLES, stories, not historical accounts, used to convey greater, eternal truths. Whether the prodigal son was a historically "objective" person or not is totally missing the point of that parable and others. One can fully accept the words of Jesus without injecting 20th century, fundamentalist obsessions into them. It's not an either/or of accept Jesus' teachings or reject all of them. Rather, begin by reading Jesus correctly.