Nigeria, Aug. 3 -- I wrote a book entitled, Why Christians Won't Go to Heaven. Some Christians complained that my book is too absolute. They said I should have written: "Why Some Christians Won't Go to Heaven."

"No," I replied. "I mean no Christian will go to heaven. Christianity is not a criterion for heaven."

Then, I wrote an article entitled "Christians Make Terrible Husbands." Some self-righteous Christian husbands shot back, saying I should have said, "Some Christian Make Terrible Husbands."

"No! No! No!" I mean "all Christian husbands."

God's prophetic word is appropriately expressed in absolute terms. Jesus says:

"The sons of the kingdom will be cast out into outer darkness. There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth." (Matth...