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Title: Helvedet - og en kærlig Gud (Hell and a Loving God)
Author: Claus Tøndering
Genre: Christian non-fiction
Rating: 10/10
# pages: 122
Date read: October 2005, March 2008, July 2010

Is it possible to see damnation and Hell as a side of God's love for us?

If we trust in Jesus' words there's no escaping the fact that Hell is real. But most of us hide this thought far away in a small corner of our conscience and are very reluctant to bring it forward. Many of us find it difficult to match our belief in God's love with the undeniable words of Hell found in the Bible. How do we unite the belief of God's unlimited love with the fact that Jesus often talks of damnation and Hell as a reality?

This book is an attempt to address this problem. The author manages to do this without coming with easily bought explanations and with the goal to help us to retain our belief in God's love - also when confronted with the reality of Hell.

I have reread this book several times since I first got my hands on it, because it offers a good take on an interesting subject. The problem of how to understand hell is one that most Christians face sooner or later, and it's important to realize that God doesn't send some people to hell because He doesn't love them, but rather because He loves them too much not to let them make their own decisions.

I won't claim to understand everything about hell - far from it - and there are still things that make no sense at all to me, but this book has given me a greater understanding for how the idea of a loving God can be combined with the horrors of Hell.

Translated into English as "Hell and a Loving God".

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