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Today I listened to Rob Bell's book, "Love Wins"…as I drove along the mail route.  I was surprised and affirmed by his words.  He poses a lot of great questions and challenges the typical beliefs and mind sets of many religions, as well as looking at the bible and its stories from a new viewpoint….and offers a very new approach to God and Jesus, one that reflects what I now believe.

Depending upon how you were taught and raised to believe, you will have a different kind of God, than perhaps the true God.

I highly recommend reading or listening to his book, if you are at all against the normal religious dogma that seems to separate.

There is something that I was able to understand, but barely able to grasp…for it was how someone without religious boundaries, is often the one persecuted…compared to the one who does AND he often separates himself from others.  And, yet he points fingers at the one without any.

All, I know…is that the religious person is often seeing the non-religious one as wrong…just because they don't have a church.  And, not being able to see that those with a church exclude so many just because they don't match.  And, yet blame the ones who are outside for not matching.  Not themselves for having such strict rules for acceptance.

It dovetails with my experience of my family.  How I am seen as wrong…for not being able to match the rest. That God forbid it be the mass of them that are wrong. And, it is my fault for not being the same.  Not theirs for demanding sameness.

A very refreshing book about God and Jesus and gives me hope for humanity and that he sees the God of Love…and that the God of punishment is from an old era or age.  There is hope that times are a changing and Rob Bell is one who stuck his neck out to challenge the Christians in how they see Heaven, Hell, God and Jesus and even more importantly view themselves and the rest of us.

Imagine if Hell didn't exist or sins?

He suggests that many live for the evacuation to Heaven…and the fear of Hell…without pausing to wonder how they can improve this earth.  Like this is just a place that will decide where you go when you die.

If there were no hell what would churches sell?