"All my forefathers have passed away into darkness without knowing anything of what was to befall them; how is it that your forefathers knowing all these things, did not send word to my forefathers sooner?" African chief to Missionary David Livingstone
This quote was attached to a letter from an old friend of ours who is going to Africa as a missionary...along with some other quotes about hell...and I am struck with a sinking feeling that he is on a quest to save as many people as he can from the fiery darkness that they would otherwise be headed to if he didn't tell them the "Good News"...
What good news? That they might get to go to heaven but their parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and all who came before them and didn't hear the "good news" will be in darkness forever? Like Rob Bell said, how is that good news? How is that a good God?
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