{"id":9444,"date":"2011-06-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/2011\/06\/22\/ur-video-francis-chan-on-hell\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T00:00:00","slug":"ur-video-francis-chan-on-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/ur-video-francis-chan-on-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ur Video: Francis Chan on Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tIt&#39;s not my habit to post videos that function as extended commercials for a product, but in this case I&#39;ve made an exception. Francis Chan has a new book launching that he co-wrote with New Testament professor Preston Sprinkle (not a Baptist, I&#39;m guessing). It&#39;s obvious that <em>Erasing Hell: What God said about eternity, and the things we&#39;ve made up<\/em> is a response to He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named and his best-selling <em>Book-That-Must-Not-Be-Read<\/em>. 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Or does he simply compound the questions by talking about more unsavory parts of the Bible?<\/p>\n\n\t<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n                                https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qnrJVTSYLr8<\/div><\/figure>\n<p>\n\t <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#39;s not my habit to post videos that function as extended commercials for a product, but in this case I&#39;ve made an exception. Francis Chan has a new book launching that he co-wrote with New Testament professor Preston Sprinkle (not a Baptist, I&#39;m guessing). It&#39;s obvious that Erasing Hell: What God said about eternity, and <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/pastors\/content\/ur-video-francis-chan-on-hell\/\">Read 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