Ramblinman, you were right and I was wrong about the wider applications of "Reconciliation." I apologize for trying to shut off dialogue about them.
I do not deny that Hell is real, nor that humans who don't believe in Jesus will go there. But I wonder if we realize just what's involved in "believing Jesus." I'm sure you've heard the parable about the tightrope walker about to cross Niagara Falls pushing a wheelbarrow. He asked his admiring audience, "Who believes I can cross this tightrope with this wheelbarrow?" Lots of hands shot up. "All right, who wants to get in the wheelbarrow?"
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As far as I can tell, "accepting" Jesus and "believing in Jesus" really mean to get in the wheelbarrow, to follow Him even to the Cross. Anything less is not saving belief.
