my testimony

Because my testimony is helping so many people, I am posting it here
so it will stay on your front page for awhile if that's ok with you.
The many entries in my guest book that is accessible towards the
bottom of the front page on my site, and the many positive emails in
my email file folders, show that the content of my testimony is
helping many people.

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MY TESTIMONY

The idea that God lets any creature suffer endlessly has caused me
more suffering than all other problems of my life combined. By the
time I had reached the mission field I had hoped to have found a
satisfactory answer that would justify God allowing this to happen. I
didn't find such an answer. Surrounded by thousands of people, dozens
of whom were dying every day and beginning an eternity of suffering in
hell was too much for me.

In 1966, at age 28, it caused me to have a nervous breakdown. For
several weeks I was confined to my bed in a state of terror night and
day. The terror was caused by the fear of what a God I could not love
or respect would do to me after I died. It took me twelve years to
fully recover from the breakdown. I quickly became agnostic, for the
Christian gospel and the Bible were no longer any comfort to me at
all. Many evangelical friends tried to help me. They meant well, but
in the end they all had only words of condemnation towards me. This
added more suffering to my already intense suffering.

Gradually I began to learn that there have been, in centuries past,
and still are today, a few people in the world that see a different
kind of God in the Bible. They see a God who will not let any creature
suffer forever. They see a God in the Bible who will change every
second of everyone's suffering into something better that it happened,
including the sufferings of Satan. I learned that a correctly
(literally) translated Bible teaches universal transformation, not
endless suffering in hell, or even annihilation. I read dozens of
books, and listened to hundreds of tapes by men who believe this way
and I gradually became converted to believing this way myself.

Since 1981, through my newspaper ads and my telephone ministry, I have
sent out many hundreds of packets of literature explaining why I
believe as I do. I have also sent this evidence to hundreds of pastors
and Bible school teachers. None of them have told me that they are
able to refute it. I have also read eight books that were supposed to
refute the evidence in favor of universalism, but none of them do.
Because of this evidence, my panic attacks became less frequent until
twelve years after my breakdown they ceased altogether. Now nothing
gives me greater pleasure than to make this evidence available to
others who have suffered because of the same problem I had even though
they have embraced Christ and His gospel for themselves, and I use a
substantial amount of my money and time to this end.

Because of the enormous amount of suffering the idea of "endless hell"
causes in this world, I am asking you to consider the possibility that
you should stop endorsing the idea that the Bible teaches it. Or, at
least, let others know that there are (and have been in centuries
past) people who do not think the Bible teaches it.

Many of the responses from pastors and teachers range from a mild:
"The majority don't agree with you so you must be wrong", to the
vicious "For every week you leave your ad in the papers, God will
increase the temperature of the fires of hell for you personally".
Most are somewhere in between these remarks. But none have told me
they are able to refute the evidence. And, until they can, they will
not be able to stop me from sharing the good news that a correctly
(literally) translated Bible teaches universal transformation, not
endless suffering in hell, or even annihilation.

A website that answers all the arguments that seem to support the idea
that the Bible teaches endless suffering in hell is TENTMAKER.
Although forum rules prevent me from posting forum links, you can
easily Google it up. The "scholar's corner" under "research" deals
with every aspect of the subject. The more than 600 page search engine
at the top of this same TENTMAKER front page is also very
comprehensive regarding this subject. Just type in a key word or
phrase from any argument or scripture passage, and ten articles will
appear that refute the eternal hell and annihilation doctrines. Then
click to the next page and ten more will appear, and so on, and so on
for many pages.

I am also going to guide you all to the testimony of a man whose
experience was almost identical to mine. Even the thought processes
that took him into, through, and out of his breakdown are the same as
mine. Only he is much more eloquent in telling his story than I am in
telling mine. His name is Charles Slagle.
http://www.tentmaker.org/books/Absolute-Assurance-in-Jesus-Christ.html

Or, you can also Google up ABSOLUTE ASSURANCE

You can access my forum through Google by typing in Rodger Tutt.

It may well be that a few members of this form or surfers will be able
to benefit from the testimonies of Charles and myself.

May God's blessing rest with your spirit!
From Rodger Tutt in Toronto, Canada
"That God may be All in all" 1Cor.15:28

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