“Cameron’s journey from Revival’s Golden Key to “Hellgate” thus illustrates a larger pattern: seeker-sensitive culture does not stop at responding to worship style preferences — it continues its submission to fleshly preferences until it’s telling lost people the “good news” that hell isn’t as bad as the church has always taught.”
(David Morrill) American evangelicalism has not simply changed its methods in the last three decades — it has quietly changed how it knows truth. That epistemological shift isn’t abstract. Instead, it can be traced in the trajectory of public ministers like Kirk Cameron.
In 2001, a 31-year-old Cameron — already a well-known Christian voice — wrote the foreword to Ray Comfort’s Revival’s Golden Key. Comfort’s book was unapologetically premised on eternal conscious torment (ECT). It argued that modern evangelicals avoided hell because they feared offending sinners, that the law must wound before grace can heal, and that the reality of everlasting punishment is what gives the gospel its urgency.
In arguing for the importance of preaching the fearfulness of the eternal wrath of God in evangelism, Comfort wrote on page 116:
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CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18 such as Kirk Cameron and Rick Warren.