ABC News: ‘Heretic’ Minister: Nobody Goes to Hell
ABC News recently posted an article about Carlton Pearson renouncing historical Christianity, stating that no one goes to hell.
The article seems to applaud him for sticking to his conscience, and makes believers out to be lunatics; removing him from the pulpit “he built” for this heresy. It’s a rather sad story (the part about his crisis of faith). I noticed a telling statement in the article and am compelled to comment on it.
Through the years, as Pearson studied the ancient Greek and Hebrew Scriptures, he developed a crisis of faith.
“I couldn’t reconcile a God whose mercy endures forever, and this torture chamber that’s customized for unbelievers,” Pearson said.
This is where his error begins. The breaking point in his crisis of faith. Here’s the problem. Hell IS NOT “customized for unbelievers”!! He must have missed that in his years of study of the original Greek and Hebrew…
Hell was (actually, is going to be…) created for Satan and his demons. It happens, however, that those who reject God, will be punished for eternity there as well.
This is the hardest teaching in the Christian religion. Jesus spoke on it frequently himself. To dismiss it on a feeling that God has spoken to you is dangerous at best. And is certainly heretical.
Hell is a sad reality. I have family members that will be there, and it grieves me. Unfortunately, as much as I wish I could, I cannot reject God’s word simply because I do not like it. Rather, I will live a life in an attempt to show people God’s goodness and love and mercy, such that they will embrace him and not end up in Hell.
Yeah that article is pretty sad. The thing I didn’t like about the article is that it never says any actual verses, but discounts everything altogether as fear-mongering in an attempt to extort and control the congregation. When he says that we are born sinners he seems to imply that there isn’t ever a choice. Beyond that he has a number of other hard assumptions on who (babies and those who never had an opportunity to hear) goes to hell which neither I nor the Bible are particularly clear on.
This seems like the time to point out that making decisions based on feelings would get you killed in war.