about the character of Jesus rather than to be an exhaustive theology of forgiveness. Bell, however, constructs on the basis of this verse a claim that, ?Forgiveness is unilateral. God isn?t waiting for us to get it together, to clean up, shape up, get up ? God has already done it? (p.189). Bell reserves a place for faith in some sense, but it is simply about accepting God?s love and does not apparently need to contain any belief in actual facts about God or Jesus: I believe that the indestructible love of God is an unfolding, dynamic reality and that every single one of us is endlessly being invited to trust, accept, believe, embrace, and experience it. Whatever words you find helpful for describing this act of trust, Jesus invites us to say yes to this love of God, again and again and again . (p.194) The belief that saving faith does not necessarily require any beliefs about Jesus is also clear in another passage where Bell writes: But in reading all of the passages in which Jesus uses the word ?hell,? what is so striking is that people believing the right or wrong things isn?t his point. He?s often not talking about ?beliefs? as we think of them ? he?s talking about anger and lust and indifference. He?s talking about the state of his listeners? hearts, about how they conduct themselves, how they interact with their neighbours, about the kind of effect they have on the world . (p.82)