The E-Mail Never Sent

Several years ago (I've forgotten how many) I received a particularly nasty and viscous email.  Unfortunately the email has been lost, but I remember it well.  Its author accused me of spreading "damnable heresy" for rejecting the doctrine of eternal torment. He suggested that I obviously "know nothing" about what the Bible has to say on the topic.  The sender recommended that I study the material written by Bill Weise at soulchoiceministries.org.  Bill Weise is the author of "23 Minutes in Hell"where he claims to have died and was literally taken to hell.  The writer of my email rudely stated that I ‘might actually learn something’ from studying this material.

My usual response to such emails is to hit the delete button, but checking out the material at soulchoiceministries.org got me stirred up.

I began to write a rather lengthy email response to this person; more lengthy and detailed than was probably warranted or deserved.  Anyway, I got about 18 PAGES into writing when I stopped and realized the whole exercise was most likely a waste of time and energy.  I quietly filed it away thinking maybe it would be of some use later - Then promptly forgot it existed.

Recently while sorting through old files, this lengthy, unfinished, never-sent response resurfaced.  Perhaps I was "in a mood", having a bad day, or just didn't take kindly to the suggestion that I was spreading "damnable heresy", but boy-oh-boy, it's "really something".  While I generally try to avoid writing in the sarcastic, acerbic style in which I began to respond, for whatever reason I believed it was justified that day.

Still, I think this pointed (and sometimes humorous) response makes its point, and perhaps although never finished (it still isn't), someone might now find it useful or interesting.  So, without further editing or comment I present for your edification, and maybe entertainment:

​The E-mail Never Sent