Never forget the three “Whats.”
1) What from?
2) What by?
3) What to?
What from? Believers are delivered from hell and destruction.
What by? By the precious blood of Christ.
What to? To an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away.
- Adapted from Spurgeon’s Feathers for Arrows
I would add to the first answer: We are saved by God from God. Hell is hell not because one is separated from God. It’s hell because one is forever the object of God’s wrath. For this what Christ faced to pay for our sins. It was not the cruel treatment by men – it was the wrath of God the Father poured out on Christ Jesus that wiped our slates clean.
I say I have to agree with Manfred. Say, Manfred, are you a Theology cop?
Emergent Whats:
What from? From those small-minded, Bible-thumping, Theology Cops that are always trying to squelch our fun.
What by? The Bible is unclear so we trust in our mystical experiencial journey in the mist our conversation with fellow unbelievers. Basically we do not like the way God designed things so we are rewriting the book…
What to? To the fullest extent of our ego-maniacal self-love…
Truthy,
I’ve been called worse