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A review by cantrememberthedreamthatihad
23 Minutes in Hell: One Man's Story about What He Saw, Heard, and Felt in That Place of Torment by Bill Wiese
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I'm coming at this book as a hopeful Christian Universalist that also has sympathies with the Annihilationist camp. I don't hold to the Bible as an infallible work, though I am very strongly a follower of Christ.
This may have unseated "Who Moved My Cheese?" as the worst book I've ever read.
The writing is abysmal to begin with. The "account" of hell uses Scripture to try to back up the author's goofy story, but the way he completely rips verses out of context and twists them to suit his narrative is--frankly--breathtaking.
There's some stories about the "life changing" results he's seen around the world as a result of his message followed by a really, really bad apologetic portion about biblical infallibility. It's filled with special pleading and horrifically bad leaps of laughable logic.
The author goes on to describe how God doesn't WANT anyone in hell, and that God desperately wants people to not "choose" hell. All the author has done is present God as a remarkable ineffective deity because their are billions apparently heading there.
The author then answers "questions about hell" and continues to torture scripture...seriously, he could give the Independent Baptist Fundamentalists a run for their money in forcing verses to say what he wants, which is troubling for someone who claims to hold Scripture in such high regard.
To put it mildly, this book is terrible, and it's often sold alongside other "accounts of hell" which often flatly contradict each other. A must avoid for anyone, Christian or otherwise.
This may have unseated "Who Moved My Cheese?" as the worst book I've ever read.
The writing is abysmal to begin with. The "account" of hell uses Scripture to try to back up the author's goofy story, but the way he completely rips verses out of context and twists them to suit his narrative is--frankly--breathtaking.
There's some stories about the "life changing" results he's seen around the world as a result of his message followed by a really, really bad apologetic portion about biblical infallibility. It's filled with special pleading and horrifically bad leaps of laughable logic.
The author goes on to describe how God doesn't WANT anyone in hell, and that God desperately wants people to not "choose" hell. All the author has done is present God as a remarkable ineffective deity because their are billions apparently heading there.
The author then answers "questions about hell" and continues to torture scripture...seriously, he could give the Independent Baptist Fundamentalists a run for their money in forcing verses to say what he wants, which is troubling for someone who claims to hold Scripture in such high regard.
To put it mildly, this book is terrible, and it's often sold alongside other "accounts of hell" which often flatly contradict each other. A must avoid for anyone, Christian or otherwise.