This is *good* news, not bad news, ya Noisebot. . .look at something:

The 1st chapter of Hebrews calls Christ the "express image" (in Greek, charakter) of God.

Christ Himself said "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father."

If we examine the actions, words and demeanor displayed by Christ in the gospels, do we see anything there that might indicate that He's concerned about people plunging into an abyss of unending misery, or that He would allow such a thing to happen?

He spoke with a woman taken in the act of adultery, and said not one word about hell, judgment, or even repentance. He actually seemed focused on revealing the hearts of her blood-thirsty accusers. He told her "I don't condemn you; go and sin no more."

He met a woman at a well who was apparently living with a man she was not married to, and it comes out that she had been shacked up with men several times before. He didn't issue one peep about her eternal fate, or the consequences of her sins. And as they spoke, the conversation eventually touched on the nature of worship. Why would He engage in such a topic, if this chick was a mere heartbeat away from hellfire? Why didn't He warn her? Today's christians certainly would have - we'd be climbing on her face about the destiny of her eternal soul, wouldn't we?

There was a rich man who came to Jesus asking him what he needs to do to acquire eternal life. Jesus told him to sell all his possessions and give the funds to the poor. The man went away sad, because he owned so much he would have to part with. Did Jesus go after him? Read him the riot act about his idolatry? Confont him with the severity of his afterlife? No, He graciously allowed the guy to go on his way and consider his plight on his own terms instead of putting him on the spot in front of an audience.

Furthermore, Hebrews 1 also says that Christ is the heir of "all things" (Greek pas, meaning "all"), and He states in Matthew 11 that "All things are delivered unto me of my Father". What is our Shepherd likely to do with "all"? Leave us to the consequences of our defective, blinded freewill? Or perhaps seek and save even the last lone straggler? In John 6, he says that He'll lose *nothing* of what He was given. If He was given all, and will lose nothing of that all, it sounds like "all" is in good hands, yes?

This is just the tip of the iceberg. Consideration of this kind of info, along with the realization that English terms such as "hell" and "forever" are mistranslations of the original Greek, should start to dispel the errors of Egypt's twisted doctrine like a bad dream.