Piper on Hell
As a follow up to Derek's earlier post, I received this from Bill Schweitzer, a church planter in Newcastle, England working with the EPCEW, pointing me to a recent article by John Piper.
"C S Lewis' doctrine of hell--that hell is merely the inevitable outworking of sin on the human psyche, and thus completely self-chosen rather than imposed by a wrathful God--has been growing in its popularity among evangelicals. Although this idea of hell is obviously very useful in apologetics, it is unbiblical. John Piper has drawn attention to some of the problems with Lewis' doctrine of hell in this recent article:
Bill continues,
"In addition to the exegetical issues Piper mentions about the doctrine itself, questions could be asked about its implications for the atonement (roughly speaking, whatever we think hell consists of is what Jesus must have endured on our behalf), and ultimately, for our doctrine of God (is he a wrathful God who sends sinners to hell or else requires propitiation for them, or one who simply allows people to go their own way?) Most of us have have benefited from Lewis' writings, and we should be thankful for them. But we should not appropriate his theology uncritically."
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