A Fundamentalist View of Hell

[bean]

I don't think there is a hell after death. I think we can be separated from God and that is hell.
In fact, we spend enough time making our own hell right here on earth. When we struggle on our own, and allow ourselves to be separated from God's love, we make our own hell right here.
Hell as a concept was a nice way to keep people under the thumb of the church and the powerful people thousands of years ago.

I also believe that God's love is infinitely powerful and inescapable. We can choose to run from it, but His love will run us down eventually. We were created in love. He has a special plan for our lives. He wants us to know that love and share that love TODAY. I have a hard time believing that the God who "God IS love" would at some point write someone off. I am probably a universalist in this sense: that ALL shall be made alive!

I don't think God has our timetable, either.

A big thing I always noticed in fundamentalist theology is they seem so worried about the past and the future. I am choosing to live in God's love and share that love with others TODAY.