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Everlasting hell and divine judgment, a lake of hearth and brimstone - these mainstays of evangelical custom have come under fire once more in recent generations. Would the God of love discovered by Jesus really consign almost all humankind to a destiny of eternal, mindful torment? Is divine mercy bound by the demands of justice? How can anyone presume to learn who is preserved from the flames and who's not? Responding to presumptions in like manner, others write from the fiery images of last judgment altogether. When there is a God who enjoys us, then surely each is welcome into the heavenly kingdom, no matter their values or behaviors in this life. Yet, given the large level of threat rhetoric in the Scriptures and the wickedness express in human history, the pop-universalism in our day sounds similar to denial than desire. Mercy triumphs over judgment; it does not skirt it. Her Gates Will Never Be Shut efforts to reconsider the particular Bible and the Cathedral have actually said about hell and desire, noting a breadth of real prospects that undermines every presumption. The polyphony of perspectives on hell and trust made available from the prophets, apostles, and Jesus humble our obsessive need to harmonize every wording into a nice theological system. However they open the entranceway to the eternal desire found in Revelation 21-22: the town whose gates won't be shut; where the Spirit and Bride perpetually invite the thirsty who are outside the city to "Come, drink of the waters of life."
