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. I disagreed with much of what he had written. Since I changed my approach in "Hell is a Place on Earth" to specifically address Francis Chan's book, and specifically his views about Gehenna, I changed the title to reflect my new approach.  

I don't always pay as much attention to my reviews as I should, so I was shocked to find a two-year old one-star review from someone in Italy who had never downloaded the book. The issue that reviewer had was that I mentioned Francis Chan in the title, and he thought I had done that out of an ulterior motive. 

Just not good, avoid!
Recensito in Italia 🇮🇹 il 12 luglio 2021
The author has his view, and that would be perfectly ok, if it was not for the simple ridiculous fact that he uses Francis Chan's name to be found in search engines, without which nobody would ever buy his book. Shame!

Being found in search engines never played a part in the title of the book. As I said, my first title was far more successful. So the reviewer was wrong about why the title was chosen. It had nothing to do with search engines. It had everything to do with what Francis Chan had written and why I disagreed with him about Gehenna and Eternal Conscious Torment in hell. Since it is a public review, I felt I needed to address the accusation publicly because it is a false accusation. 

One more thing. As my regular readers know, I am not a "he." I am a woman and have been since birth. I do not have a Y-chromosome. I am old fashioned. I believe that gender is biological, and there are only two of them. 

 But that is a whole other subject.