My take on Rob Bell, Love Wins and Everyone’s Destiny: The biblical text that deals best with this is Romans 2:5-11 and 16. There are two groups here…each will be judged in Jesus Christ (16), one group that is “persistant in doing good and seeking glory (God’s glorious vision of reality)” and the other that is “self seeking, reject the truth and follow evil”…one group has and will be rewarded with eternal life and glory or Heaven (not as a work but as desired gift), the other group will get trouble and distress, or a place that isn’t so glorious, Hell if you will (not as punishment but as the reality they choose to live in – and it is worked for, for sure – evil is harder to live with than good).

How many are in each group? This is where I think most make a mistake in trying to determine that…we just don’t and won’t know. I hope lots in the first and few in the latter…and I think that is God’s clearly biblical desire too…but we have this incredible capacity due to God’s desire for us to share in his nature…a powerful and life giving or taking freedom, and we can use that God-like power to reject the good…and God.  As I once heard Dallas Willard say, “we are doomed to decide” or in the case of those who long for God’s glorious Kingdom…very blessed!