Unpacking Doubt and Deconstruction: Hell, Trust, and What Faith Really Means (Q&A Special)

Voxology

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2017

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Struggling with trust in the church? Wrestling with the concept of hell? Unsure what "faith" really looks like when life feels messy? This live Q&A episode dives headfirst into your biggest theological questions, exploring the complexity of belief, grace, and what it means to follow Jesus in a world—and a church—full of contradictions.

Mike Erre and Andy Lara gather questions from the Voxology community and Facebook Live to discuss how Christians can make sense of topics like universal reconciliation, annihilationism, the first miracle at Cana, biblical prophecy, and whether faith still counts when it's incomplete, doubtful, or deconstructed.

Key Takeaways:
• Trusting the Church While Disillusioned – Why institutional church hurt can lead to skepticism, and how to navigate spaces where love feels conditional.
• Multiple Perspectives on Hell – Eternal conscious torment, annihilationism, purgatory, and universal reconciliation... which view actually reflects a loving God?
• Faith That Fumbles – How Abraham’s failures reveal that biblical “great faith” doesn’t require perfection, just trust in God’s activity, not our performance.
• The Purpose of Jesus Turning Water to Wine – A layered look at joy, shame, and God’s abundance in Jesus’ first miracle, free from our debates over alcohol.
• Misreading the End Times – Why fear-based eschatology misses Jesus’ primary message and how Revelation offers a hope-filled call to faithful witness today.

Guest Highlights:
Seth Erre – Drops by mid-show for a surprise visit full of joy, laughter, and a reminder of the beauty of everyday faith.

Resources Mentioned:
• “Four Views on Hell” edited by Preston Sprinkle – A helpful theological primer on major views of the afterlife.
• Vox Community Podcast Archive – Hell Series Episodes
• Episodes on Religious Pluralism and Covenant vs. Contractual Faith – Available in the Voxology back catalog

This episode is a powerful reminder that faith doesn’t have to be polished to be real—and that Jesus meets us, questions and all, in the mess of it. Subscribe, leave a review, and follow us @voxologypodcast on social media to be part of the ongoing conversation.

As always, we encourage and would love discussion as we pursue. Feel free to email in questions to [email protected], and to engage the conversation on Facebook and Instagram.

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As always, we encourage and would love discussion as we pursue. Feel free to email in questions to [email protected], and to engage the conversation on Facebook and Instagram.

We're on YouTube (if you're into that kinda thing): VOXOLOGY TV.

Our Merch Store! ETSY

Learn more about the Voxology Podcast

Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify

Support the Voxology Podcast on Patreon

The Voxology Spotify channel can be found here: Voxology Radio

Follow Mike on Twitter: www.twitter.com/mikeerre

Music in this episode by Timothy John Stafford

Instagram & Twitter: @GoneTimothy

Transcript

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0:00.0	Well, if it's Thursday, it's Vox Podcast Day.
0:11.8	Happy Thursday today in the Erie home, last day of school.
0:15.6	So there have been a multitude of assemblies, award ceremonies, graduation dictates that have been sat through,
0:24.7	some joyfully, some non-joyfully.
0:28.3	What, you don't enjoy sitting and watching other kids be acknowledged for how great they are?
0:34.0	No, I love that. You could just do it a lot faster.
0:40.0	So Hannah had an assembly today and there was like every single class read a verse, sang a song, got affirmed, had a blessing,
0:48.2	prayed over them, you know, their teacher spoke. I mean, it was like, you know, we could have done
0:53.0	this a little quicker.
1:00.2	Really? What are you doing right now? Are we on? Are we going? Okay. You scare me when you switch out headphones like that. All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is Facebook live. And usually that
1:06.9	means the five or six of you that are actually live, we're very excited about.
1:12.5	And then the, the 1,200 of you that watched later. So it's always weird knowing that this will
1:19.9	stick around for a little bit. So anyway, hello, we're glad you're here. It is 219 on Thursday afternoon, and Seth Erie's bus arrives at 224, which means sometimes, sometimes a little later than that.
1:37.5	Which means there could be a very delightful interruption right in the middle of Facebook Live, where Seth will, he'll give
1:48.8	some answers to some big questions. So anyway, Andy, we've got some questions. We've got some
1:52.7	cues. We've got some cues. We don't know. Yep. That's right. Here we go. Layed on us.
1:56.6	Let it on us. First one. Okay. So often I have found church after church and pastor after pastor who teach and claim their
2:03.3	own anxiety based insecurities.
2:05.7	Who teach and, and claim their own anxiety and insecurities.
2:10.7	All right.
2:11.3	All right.
2:11.6	Or claim to have anxiety.
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