Gregory And Edward Boyd's Letters From A Skeptic

“Letters from a Skeptic” written by Gregory and Edward Boyd, is an amazing book that is filled with profound insights and principles of the Christian Faith by exploring letters that go back and forth between a man (who was a former atheist) and his son (who is a believer in Christ). This book is filled with intellectual questions that non-believers and believers have about Christianity, and the son, Gregory, responds with his personal experience and insight from the Bible. While reading I came across three points that really intrigued me and questions that I could relate to and have even asked myself at one point in time, “How can you believe that a man rose from the dead”, “why didn’t God spare your mother”, and “how could an all-loving God …show more content…
This question reminds me of when I was in youth group years ago. One Wednesday night, we had a discussion about hell and what it would be like. I remember our youth pastor turned the heater on (in the middle of a very hot summer I may add), they had a horrible smell that filled the room, and they had candles and fire placed around the room. They did this to give us some kind of insight as to what hell may be like one day. The father makes the statement that the Bible paints a nightmarish portrait of hell, and that it is filled with hatred, fire, darkness, torment, and a place of no hope (page 194). Greg responds very truthfully by saying that the idea of Hell is something that he struggles with as well, and it is something that even I struggle with. He tells his father that the Bible uses metaphors to describe what Hell is really like. Greg concludes his letter by saying, “If Jesus willingly died for us to avoid in, hell must be one terrifying experience” (page 201). Greg also says that hell is the ultimate destiny of people who freely choose to live a life that God never intended them to live, and that hell is a place that people put themselves in, not God (page