After endorsing same-sex marriage in a 2013 interview and preaching universal salvation in his controversial book Love Wins, Rob Bell, former pastor of Michigan's Mars Hill Bible Church, is now predicting that Christians are just "moments away" from embracing gay marriage, suggesting they have been "evolving" on the issue while simultaneously threatening their "irrelevance" if they don't enlighten themselves like he has.

Having left his position as head "pastor" of a congregation that drew in 100,000 people to team up with Oprah Winfrey, the 44-year-old Bell appeared on the queen of pop theology's Super Soul Sunday with his wife Kristen to discuss their book The Zimzum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage, where he went beyond just merely endorsing same-sex marriage, but also dismissed the modern relevance of the Holy Bible. 

"I think it’s great that you all made a conscious choice to include gay marriage in [the book]," Oprah said in response to a book excerpt saying same-sex marriages are a gift to the world. "Why [did you do that]?"

"One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness," Rob Bell replied. "Loneliness is not good for the world. Whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural and healthy to want someone to go through life with. It’s central to our humanity. We want someone to go on the journey with."

"When is the Church going to get that?" Oprah asked.

"We’re close," he responded.

"I think it’s evolving," Bell’s wife interjected.

"Lots of people are already there,” Bell added. "We think it’s inevitable and we’re moments away from the Church accepting it. I think the culture is already there, and the Church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from 2,000 years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh-and-blood people who are your brothers and sisters, and aunts and uncles, and co-workers and neighbors, and they love each other and just want to go through life."

"There are churches who are moving forward and there are churches who are almost regressing and making it more of a battle," his wife added.

Back in 2013 when Bell endorsed same-sex marriage, he asserted that conservative evangelicals will either "die or adapt" as the culture pushes toward the future.