Tom Breen of the Associated Press has an interesting article:
The pastor of a rural United Methodist church in North Carolina wrote a note on his Facebook page supporting a new book by Rob Bell, a prominent young evangelical pastor and critic of the traditional view of hell as a place of eternal torment for billions of damned souls.
Two days later, Holtz was told complaints from church members prompted his dismissal from Marrow’s Chapel in Henderson.
. . . About the only thing everyone agrees on is that this is not a new debate in Christianity. It stretches to antiquity, when Christianity was a persecuted sect in the Roman Empire, and the third century theologian Origen developed a theory that contemporary critics charged would mean that everyone, even the devil himself, would ultimately be saved. Church leaders eventually condemned ideas they attributed to Origen, but he has had a lasting influence across the Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant traditions.
Those traditions often disagree, even internally, on what awaits souls after death. The Catholic Church, which has a formal process for identifying souls in heaven through canonization, pointedly refrains from saying that anyone is without a doubt in hell. Protestants reject the concept of purgatory, in which sins can be atoned for after death, but disagree on other questions. The lack of consensus is enabled partly by ambiguities in the Bible.
Pastor loses job after doubting hell’s existence – US news – Life – msnbc.com
The summary of various ideologies, leads to a conclusion that hell is a place like hospital, where treatment is provided to all those souls who are suffering from some moral sickness. Once they are cured, they are made to enter eternal paradise. If sick souls are allowed to enter the paradise, they can start an epidemic and make everybody sick. God Almighty, created everything for the progeny of Adam & Eve. HE new that sickness will be infused by SATAN in simple and greedy people while on earth. So HE prepared an Hospital for their treatment called Hell. No need to worry, think positive and God will help you to understand HIS universe.