Here's a link to an video in which Martin Bashir hits Rob Bell with some very tough questions on his new book and his questionable (at best) theology:
I have not read Bell's book yet, Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived, but I plan to soon. If you haven't heard, Bell is being heavily criticized for bordering on heresy with universalistic theology. In the interview Bashir, in my opinion, crushes Bell. Bell fails to give any clear answers and often simply fails to address the question he's asked. At best Rob Bell does not understand the Bible, sound theology, and even his own views and is at worst committing heresy.
The first question the Bashir asked of Bell was about the disaster in Japan. I wish that I could have answered for him. First, Bashir puts limiting constraints on his question, which is unfair and shows a poor understanding of the Triune God. Secondly, Bell whiffed on an amazing opportunity to enlighten Bashir on national television. When asked whether god is all-powerful and does not care about man or does god indeed care about man but is not all-powerful, Bell (after answering with a not-answer once) says that he believes that this a paradox in the character of God that we cannot understand.
Bell failed to give a complete answer and made himself and Christians as a whole look foolish. Bell should have talked about how much God cares for his people. We are all sinners but God made a way to reconcile us with Him (Romans 3:23; John 3:16). Secondly Bell should have talked about our LORD's omnipotence. God indeed created the heavens and earth and has power over nature, sickness, demons, the heart of man and death and hell (Genesis 1:1; Exodus 7:3,13, 14:15-16, 21-22; Matthew 8:14-16, 23-27; John 10:28-30). I'm am sorely disappointed that Bell did not share the Word with Bashir and everyone viewing. All he said was "I think this and I think that".
I imagine that Bell's book is just about his thoughts, and not about God's Word.
2 comments:
First off, I am not one to typically judge an entire book without having read it, particularly one written by a Christian.
However, based on the interview, it does seem that this man is committing some types of heresy at best. He has created a fluffy theology that is not Biblically sound (or even close) and, even worse, does not seem to be able to clearly defend it.
As you said, it stinks he is on TV making all Christians look like complete air-heads believing any old whimsy. However, the man doing the interview did make it pretty clear that Bell does not represent all of Christianity or what the Bible actually says. We can be thankful for that at least...
http://mattulrich.blogspot.com/2011/03/theological-confusion-gone-public-my.html
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