Yeah, Amy showed me those twitter posts in my relatives’ church in PA today (back now). OMG. Not looking forward to this.
I was toying with the idea months ago of emailing him another interpretation of that passage (not necessarily explicitly universalistic, just not drenched with doom theology and focusing more on Jesus’ first-will-be-last and last-will-be-first theology) but honestly Mark is super stubborn and it probably would’ve had about as much affect as throwing jello at a brick wall. I also didn’t quite know how to state it because I haven’t studied up on it too much.
Excuses, excuses, I know. But I’m also just interested to see his own personal take on it…