“I guess I’m not a Christian anymore,” he said, “since I can’t believe that people who aren’t Christian are going to hell.”
My young adult friend–let’s call him “Joe”–was telling me the outcome of a conversation he’d had with a couple of his friends. One of Joe’s friends came from a strongly evangelical background; the other, not as much. Nonetheless, they both insisted that to be a Christian you had to believe that anyone who did not possess faith in Jesus Christ was consigned to hell. Joe thought about his close friend from high school and his cousin’s wife, both of whom are Hindu. Taking this conversation to heart, Joe was led to conclude that the Christian faith in which he’d been raised no longer had a place for him, because he can’t accept that God would send good people like his friend and his relative to hell.
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