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Why I changed the title

The original title of my book "Gehenna Revisited: Rebutting Francis Chan " was " Hell is a Place on Earth ." Both of those titles have had a lot of readers. The strongest title was "Hell is a Place on Earth ." It came out of the gate with nearly 100 downloads. The reason I changed the title was because I changed the approach in the book. The first book dealt extensively with the tradition that the Valley of Hinnom (Gehenna), had been a garbage dump at the time of Jesus. Many still hold to that view. However, Francis Chan took issue with that tradition in the book "Erasing Hell ." That title was co-authored with Dr. Preston Sprinkle. It came out before " Hell is a Place on Earth ," but I had not yet read it when I published my first title.  Francis Chan's teaching has had a large influence on opinions about the nature of Gehenna, and I consider it a negative influence. After thinking about his book for a while, I decided to rebut it....