Sharon Baker - For the Love of God, Can We Believe in Hell? (N70)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2014
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Sharon Baker is a theologian and author of the controversial Razing Hell. Sharon takes issue with the traditional understanding of a violent atonement and hell, and instead holds to universal reconciliation where all people are refined by God's love.
“I don’t believe that God desired the violence of the cross. I think that the violence of the cross was our doing. It was a human endeavour and not required or desired by God at all, because that in itself is a grave injustice. And I don’t think God is unjust.” - Sharon Baker
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church. |
| 0:16.0 | This is Nomad podcast. |
| 0:18.4 | Once again. |
| 0:19.4 | The thing is, Wardo, you know, people think that this is such a slick, |
| 0:23.8 | professional, high-quality production. That's the sense I get. Really? You know, people will think, |
| 0:31.8 | little do they know the trauma that we occasionally are put through with our incompetence and amateurness. |
| 0:41.3 | Is that a word? |
| 0:43.8 | Amateurousness? |
| 0:44.5 | Yes. |
| 0:45.6 | So we are wanting to speak to Sharon Baker about her book, Raising Hell. |
| 0:51.7 | Just thought that would have been an interesting topic, hell. |
| 0:53.4 | It's a big thing in it. |
| 0:54.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:56.5 | We did the interview. |
| 0:58.6 | It was about 40 minutes. |
| 0:59.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:00.0 | I thought it was a good... |
| 1:01.1 | I mean, I can say this now, but I thought it was a good interview. |
| 1:03.2 | It was a great interview. |
| 1:04.0 | I thought it was good. |
| 1:04.7 | You know, it opened up a lot of avenues of theological exploration. |
| 1:08.4 | Yeah. Recording seemed to go well. |
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