Andrew Perriman on hell

[revdrew61]

This is one of many excellent posts by Andrew Perriman which expose the fallacies of the doctrine of hell as ECT
postost.net/2011/03/tim-keller-gets-lot-right-gets-hell-badly-wrong
I don’t know if AP would describe himself as a universalist, but he is well worth reading and listening to.

[Alex_Smith]

Quite interesting

[nimblewill]

The “fire of gehenna” (Matt. 5:22; 18:8-9) refers not to a universal hell but to the judgment that Jesus believed was coming upon Israel. It is an image of the massive destruction of life that would result from the Roman invasion of Judea and assault on Jerusalem (cf. Jer. 7:30-33; 19:6-8). Matthew 10:28 addresses the fears of the disciples in the same eschatological context. The image in Mark 9:48 of corpses being consumed in gehenna by worms that do not die and a fire that cannot be quenched derives from Isaiah 66:24. The dead bodies of those who rebelled against YHWH serve as a perpetual reminder to the nations and to the returning exiles of the judgment on Israel. But corpses, of course, do not feel pain. Jesus uses the image to similar effect: it forms part of his warning to the Jews of an analogous judgment to come. Keller’s suggestion that he is speaking of the “‘totaled’ human soul” (italics added) is a fundamental misreading of Jesus’ language.

If I didn’t believe this it would be hard for me to even consider universalism.