We’re taking advantage of our “Ask a…” series to talk with some of today’s leading theologians about the difficult topic of hell. Earlier this week, Edward Fudge responded to your questions about conditionalism (sometimes called annihilationism)—the view that immortality is conditional upon belief in Jesus Christ, so the unsaved will ultimately be destroyed and cease to exist rather than suffer eternally in hell. Today, Robin Parry responds to your questions from yesterday about Christian universalism, the view that one day God will reconcile all people to himself through Jesus Christ. (Talk about instant gratification!) And he did so with a series of videos.

Robin is a theological editor for Wipf and Stock Publishers. He lives in the UK and is the husband of but one wife and the father of two beautiful daughters (and the proud owner of a three-legged cat). Robin has written books on topics like Old Testament ethics, the book of Lamentations, and trinitarian worship. He is the author of The Evangelical Universalist, a controversial text written under the pen name of Gregory MacDonald. His impossible dream is to play the harmonica as well as Sunny Boy Williamson.

Robin was recently featured in the feature-length documentary, Hellbound, (which would be a great film to watch along with our series!) He's got a great sense of humor and has an engaging, conversational approach to discussing matters of theology.

I hope you learn as much from Robin’s video responses as I did. (For those who would prefer a transcription, I’m afraid I will not have time to do it myself. But if someone wants to volunteer to transcribe, I’d be happy to include it.)

UPDATE: Jessica had kindly transcribed the responses in the comment section below. I'll link to her transcription after each video. Thanks, Jessica!!

Robin begins with an introduction and then tackles your top seven questions:

Read the transcript of the introduction