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3July 24th, 2012 @ 10:55 am by Kevin
Most bonus features are released on a film’s DVD. However, I’ve decided to post this interview segment with Greg Boyd prior to the release of Hellbound?, because I think Greg makes some very important points here that are worth considering prior to engaging in a discussion on hell. Enjoy! (P. S.: This segment DOES NOT appear in the actual film.)
Greg Boyd on the importance of framing the hell question correctly from Kevin Miller on Vimeo.
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beautiful. however, within a marriage framework for viewing hell, i’d also chip this in:
god is the one pursuing the human race. he’s the lover chasing his beloved. and if his goal is to restore that relationship with the whole of the human race, it stands to reason that there is no point at which he will turn someone away. there is no amount of times someone can “divorce him” that he will finally say, “well, i’m fed up, can’t do this anymore, go have fun doing what you want to do. by the way, without knowing it, what you’ve wanted to do all along has been to go to this place called hell, which is pretty terrible.” and this is characteristically what god has to say according to most conservative evangelicals, and according to most of christianity today, but this is a VERY humanistic god. this does not remind us of the god of everlasting patience, love, and unbreakable will, but of a god someone made to suit their own ideas about what is just.
so, in short, a marriage framework should at the very least lead us to the image of a god who will not stop pursuing his creation, because of his consuming love for them.
In the Christian world it is a great feat to view salvation from the perspective of Love. Unfortunately, most of Christianity seems to, by default, inspire fear more often than love. Greg Boyd is basically saying what the most rabid Hell-fear-mongering pastor will say but with a spoonful of sugar. But yes, the subject of this footage is definitely important for questioning the Hellfire doctrine from the angle of the aggressive damnation driven Christian and the passive dancing-around-the-mulberry-bush Christian.
Another aspect to think about in this regard, within the context of covenants, is the covenant that God made with Abraham. This is touched on in Acts 3 (I believe). It says that God had covenanted with Abraham to bring all of his offspring, being all of the families of the earth, away from their wickedness. That is every human being. God has promised this with a blood covenant…. and eternally torturing the vast majority of humanity is not accomplishing/fulfilling this promise. Correcting them for a season (or ages) and bringing them to repentance does accomplish this.