I first conceptualized an afterlife without hell as I researched and wrote The Hamsa, my second novel set primarily in Poland from 1908 – 1945. Published in 2010, the researching and writing process took a full three years. During those three years, given the subject matter culminating in Auschwitz, I frequently contemplated good and evil, and the fate of the human soul after the body gives up the spirit. Nearly 20 years after I began writing that book, I still contemplate those things.
I believe that God created no bad people. Unfortunately, too many good people make too many bad choices. I do not believe that good people who make bad choices are destined for hell. I believe that when every human being breathes his final breath, our wonderful God reveals all things to him with perfect clarity. Every human being, without exception, says, “Ah, I see, I understand, I believe.” Then, our loving God opens the door and bids him to enter heaven.
This does not dispute anything in the Bible and firmly supports what’s written in John chapter 20 verse 29, “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet had come to believe.” Every human being will be offered the ability to see and understand the truth and will believe it without exception. The truth is simple: Jesus is the way. The final revelation is undeniable and irrefutable.
Two-hundred-twenty-three days ago, I began listening to Father Mike Schmitz’s podcast The Bible in a Year. Three weeks ago, my friend Abel invited me to attend a bible study with his friends and family. We meet one evening a week. Both support my conviction that Jesus is the way, and that when each man takes his final breath, God presents him with the truth so he can see it with pure clarity and total understanding which leads him to perfect and unequivocal belief.
Our loving and forgiving God will open the door… for everyone.
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