love loses
Here is a quick thought: Rob Bell is wrong.
I’m not arguing about the hell part. I’m going to argue the love part.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. - 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV
We have this idea that love will make the best happen for everyone. But that’s not love. If love doesn’t insist on its own way that means there is always freedom to choose.
If I love, I have to not force my own way. Eventually each person has to choose; that is what love does. If not, the person is forced into a prison of the desire of another. That’s not love.
If one is forced to do something it creates a ruler to subject social construct. God wants to return to the walk in the garden, two beings choosing each other. It creates a closeness, and a mutual bond. This relationship can’t be forced because love doesn’t insist on its own way. And if love must endure all things… forever, it must.
Love loses.
