Here’s video of Martin Bashir interviewing Rob Bell about Bell’s book ‘Love Wins.’
Bell’s defenders and fellow travellers were very upset that others saw fit to criticise Bell about his original promotional video for the book, in which a series of questions casting doubt upon historic Christian beliefs are asked. Bell was just posing questions, they said, and what can be wrong with that?
So I can’t imagine they’ll be too uptight about the interview, after all, Bashir is just asking questions, isn’t he?
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Not in the least. He’s asking loaded questions with the answer already programmed into them. This is not a fair or honest interview. Granted Bell could have done a better job of replying. I don’t find either Bashir or Bell very impressive in this interview.
Edwin, that was sort of the point of my post.
I thought that Bell’s series of questions which were included in his book’s promotional video (which you may not have seen) were not simple enquiries, but were conclusions expressed in propositional form.
Those who questioned Bell on these grounds were characterised by some as opposing honest enquiry.
I though turn-a-bout was ironically fair play.
Bashir’s first question (powerful/uncaring or caring/limited power) might have been challenged as to whether these are really the only two options.
As for the others, they’re interesting to ponder over in terms of what form of words you could put to Rob Bell and get a plain and relevant answer. It seems that everything gets qualified. ‘No, I’m not a universalist, if by universalist you mean…(something that no-one has generally understood universalism to mean).
Bell mentioned a woman who had been abused by someone in pastoral leadership in the interview and how his formulations take her plight into consideration. I wonder how much comfort she would derive from Bell’s notions, which suggest that Jesus has already atoned for the wrong doing of that man, that God does not hold that sin against him, and that even if he never comes to earthly justice or repentence in this life that beyond the grave he, in all probability, will accept God’s love and know eternal life.
Bell’s formulation does away with the notion of ‘death bed repentence’. Now folk can just plan on repenting post-mortem.
(I wish Bashir had asked Bell that as a question.)
Thanks for stopping by, in any case.
This whole situation has certainly had me reading a broader range of blogs and posts than usual.