Rob Bell provides a helpful insight into how he views the Scripture: “The ancient sages said the words of the sacred text were black letters on a white page—there’s all that white space, waiting to be filled with our responses and discussions and debates and opinions and longings and desires and wisdom and insights” (Love Wins, x). Here, Bell exalts human opinion and diminishes divine inspiration of the Scriptures. Bell’s low view of Scripture and high view of human opinion (including his) shou...

"The problem, however, is that the phrase 'personal relationship' is found nowhere in Scripture" (Rob Bell, Love Wins, 10). Bell is correct when he says “personal relationship” does not appear in the Bible, but how does this fact support his argument against the necessity of a personal relationship with Christ? His book, Love Wins, contains a lengthy discussion on the nonexistence of hell. What if we responded to Bell that his argument, his discussion, his beliefs, etc. in the book are ...