BOOK REVIEW

BOOK REVIEWED: HELL: SEPARATE TRUTH FROM FICTION AND GET YOUR TOUGHEST QUESTIONS ANSWERED

BOOK AUTHOR: BILL WIESE

PICKED UP AT: BORDERS

PUBLISHED BY: CHARISMA HOUSE - 2008


While on vacation in Florida, my wife and mother-in-law took an afternoon to go shopping…I took the afternoon to sit in Borders and read some stuff. I came across this book while strolling through the “religious” section in the back, and the cover intrigued me more than anything. However, as I scrolled through the Table of Contents, I found questions like: Don’t All Roads Lead to God? Does the Crime Fit the Punishment? We Wouldn’t Want to Offend Anyone, Would We? Why Does a Christian Need to Know About Hell? These questions came to be a sermon series we’re doing at Union Hill (at present) on Sunday nights.

Excerpt: “Suppose you knocked on the door of the most expensive home in the country and told the owners, “I’m moving in with you.” What do you think they would say? Of course they would say ‘no’! And you wouldn’t expect them to welcome you. You have no relationship with them. So you, who question God’s fairness, live your entire life having nothing to do with Him, even denying that Jesus is the Son of God, you then come knocking on God’s door at your death and say, “Excuse me, I’m moving in with You!” Why would you think that you have a right to move into His house…(John 14:6)… (Page 12 - 2nd Par.)

This book is good sermon stimulation, but there’s quite a bit of doctrinal difficulty to wade through. For instance, in chapter 14, he tells of his own “vision” that God allowed him to see of hell. However, even in that questionable chapter, he breaks down the description of what he saw with truthful excerpts from the Bible about torment (sermon fodder much). There is a LOT of Scripture given in this book (more than I thought there was going to be), and most of the thoughts given by the author on this topic are correct. Just be careful.