What Do You Think of Scottish Preacher and Author George MacDonald’s View of Hell? He Seemed to Believe It Was a Time of Purifying Until the Sinner Repents.

Randy Alcorn, founder of EPM
By Randy Alcorn
April 13, 2011

George MacDonald was a good thinker in some arenas, but he was a universalist, and not solidly biblical. However, C.S. Lewis said George's books baptized his imagination. Lewis's baptized mine.

For more information on universalism and the doctrine of hell, see http://www.epm.org/resources/2010/Feb/4/wouldnt-loving-god-let-everyone-go-heaven/
http://www.epm.org/resources/2010/Feb/2/why-im-big-fan-hell/
http://www.epm.org/resources/2010/Feb/22/gritty-reality-hell/

Randy Alcorn (@randyalcorn) is the author of over sixty books and the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries. 

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