catapult magazine

From our friend Larry Farris, who writes for us often but doesn’t do much blogging/posting:

my take on it is that eternal life can begin either at our baptism or after death for the unbaptized. while i think the former generally preferable, especially since it renders death a doorway, i also am granted hope in believing this way. i do not believe in hell for the simple reason that if god had to condemn people to hell, it would mean there are people god is incapable of redeeming, and i find that a difficult god to believe it (and not the god of scripture). i believe god can redeem people after death, and will do so for all (yes, even hitler who may be perfectly happy scrubby jews’ toilets for eternity). the point is to know and live in relationship to god, and that can begin now or later. the object is not to avoid hell; if it were, let’s do more deathbed baptisms! hope that’s germane.