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pantscapo's review against another edition
1.0
Rejected.
This book made me sad. Chan literally spent this much time arguing with an author who probably gives two patoots about his opinion. And what did he accomplish other than writing a too-long sermon on something theoretical? Maybe I'm just tired of this type of book, and rightfully so. But this one sat unread on my shelf for over a decade. And now it will sit unread on someone else's shelf. Good riddance.
This book made me sad. Chan literally spent this much time arguing with an author who probably gives two patoots about his opinion. And what did he accomplish other than writing a too-long sermon on something theoretical? Maybe I'm just tired of this type of book, and rightfully so. But this one sat unread on my shelf for over a decade. And now it will sit unread on someone else's shelf. Good riddance.
djla2009's review against another edition
4.0
Francis Chan is a really cool guy, I think. He writes very consisely and clearly. If you're looking for a nice book that organizes the major references of hell with interpretation, this book works for that. He is very honest about when the Bible is unclear and doesn't push a person interpretation with being clear that it is uncertain. A quick, simple, challenging and encouraging book.
The downside is that this is a surface level, not very deep discussion. Chan gets to his point and moves on. But for someone who wants to get more detail/interpretations ect, you won't get it. Chan''s main point is hell is a real place, we don't know much about it but it should be avoided at all costs. Anything else is secondary.
A great book but I think that if you come into this book fully convinced that there is no hell, Chan isn't going to spend much time trying to convince you otherwise. He's more interested in how his(and my) view of hell should affect the way you live; That you should be pushed to care about people more.
The downside is that this is a surface level, not very deep discussion. Chan gets to his point and moves on. But for someone who wants to get more detail/interpretations ect, you won't get it. Chan''s main point is hell is a real place, we don't know much about it but it should be avoided at all costs. Anything else is secondary.
A great book but I think that if you come into this book fully convinced that there is no hell, Chan isn't going to spend much time trying to convince you otherwise. He's more interested in how his(and my) view of hell should affect the way you live; That you should be pushed to care about people more.
annamontana's review against another edition
challenging
informative
medium-paced
4.0
Well thought out and easy to read. The biggest issue I had with the book is that it seemed to written to oppose Love Wins. My problem is not that it was written because of this but because I could, ten years later, still see this. And I had not read Love Wins. Because there is quite a bit of "Bell says this...," or "in the book..." it felt dated. Had it been written without those type of responses it would not have seemed dated.
Good book over all.
Good book over all.
lydiawesome's review against another edition
2.0
The aim of this book was to show how God is smarter and bigger than all of us and to prove Rob Bell wrong about hell. Chan takes us through scripture by scripture showing how 1) hell is a real place and people are gonna burn and 2) how God is so much more beyond our comprehensions. The problem is, Chan focuses so much more on the first point and glosses to much over the second. This book ends up sounding more like a seminary paper than a theology book - almost a quarter of each chapter are the footnotes. Fascinating as footnotes are, I wanted to hear more about the IMPLICATIONS of believing in a God who sends non-Christians to hello. Bell fleshed that out beautifully in his book, yet Chan is eerily silent on this score. Overall, I found his lack of grace disturbing (thanks Darth Vader). This book left me with some big questions, which he did not answer: what exactly did Jesus do for us if there still people going to hell? What is the nature of sin? Why the cross? I did give this book TWO stars, though, because it was short. I am also glad I got it thanks to Free Fridays via Nook.