{"id":2461,"date":"2011-03-31T07:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T12:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/?p=2461"},"modified":"2011-03-30T13:12:55","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T18:12:55","slug":"hell-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblearchive.com\/blog\/hell-yeah\/","title":{"rendered":"Hell? Yeah."},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve touched on lots of Scripture (in both<\/a> Testaments<\/a>) but I needed to bring up some broad theological points. I didn\u2019t want to make this a book, I just wanted to put up a few posts that pointed out that the Scriptures are fraught with the doctrine of hell and Christians should believe it. This second to last post is to affirm that the answer to the question \u201cDo you seriously believe in hell?\u201d should not be no<\/a>, but yes (for all the reasons I\u2019ve already stated but also) because:<\/p>\n

God really is saving people from Something.<\/strong> It\u2019s strange to posit that God\u2019s salvation is merely a matter of everyone Going to be with Him. If annihilation was true, then one can still argue that God is saving people from Something but with the preponderance of texts, and some of the further reasons I give in this post, that solution is just as wrong as universalism.<\/p>\n

God is love.<\/strong> Yes God is sovereign. Yes, he\u2019s not willing that any should perish. But people are still going there because they have rejected God. This isn\u2019t merely the ruin of poor choices. This is people in active rebellion against a loving God. \u00a0Like CS Lewis, I like to think that Hell is barred from the inside.<\/p>\n

God is consistent.<\/strong> Folk might also want to say is that this doctrine is inconsistent with a loving God who has been revealed by Christ. I encourage these folk to read the Gospel accounts again to see Christ on his own terms. Clearing a temple with a whip. Calling people white-washed tombs and vipers. I encourage reading of the Revelation of Christ to see a Christ who is stamping his enemies down. As CS Lewis said in the Chronicles of Narnia about the gentle, loving, and kind Aslan: he is not a tame lion. He is powerful. He acts how he wants. You take him on his own terms. And one must be careful with telling him he must act a certain way.<\/p>\n

Justice Demands It.<\/strong> Folk might raise a charge that we wouldn\u2019t punish our own children forever\u2014why would God do worse? Look, the concept that is more predominant throughout the entire book of Psalms is the idea of justice. The righting of scales. The setting things back in order. The fact is that God stands ultimately against all sin. If you get rid of hell, and the eternality of judgment, you wind up with disbarred justice.<\/p>\n

God is right.<\/strong> The people who haven\u2019t heard of Christ have already rejected God. They don\u2019t only reject him upon hearing the Gospel. They reject the very revelation of God wherever they are. Romans 1 gives a long explanation of people who have been exposed to God\u2019s illumination and who reject it forthwith experiencing God\u2019s wrath in the present. This is why Christ can say that the folk who don\u2019t believe him are condemned already (John 3:18).<\/p>\n

Scripture is fraught with the Seriousness.<\/strong> Scripture is fraught with the fact that there is a condemnation in the now and the hereafter. Saying things like Heaven and Hell are here on earth reaching outwards is fine, but that shouldn\u2019t blur the line that there is in fact a Heaven and a Hell\u2014even if this series didn\u2019t bother drawing out what we hear about Heaven. The book of Proverbs goes as far as having a person beat a fool with a rod so as to save him from Sheol and that wasn\u2019t even with all the information that Christ decided to reveal.<\/p>\n

Jesus took it seriously.<\/strong> Jesus \u00a0took the place seriously and painted some graphic images of people sawing off their arms to ensure that they don\u2019t head there. \u00a0If he thought it was this serious, so should those who follow him.<\/p>\n

God Knows what He\u2019s talking About.<\/strong> Folk might want to say is that Scripture and Christ are both wrong on this point. I don\u2019t know how someone would go about proving that since we don\u2019t have many hell-travelers coming back and letting us know that \u201cit was all a mess of bunk. Not even there.\u201d<\/p>\n

We take God on His terms.<\/strong> I didn\u2019t go over the numerous texts that establish that God is both holy and loving but they\u2019re there. How we put those things together in our mind can raise some questions, but the fact is that Scripture presents it as fact. We shouldn\u2019t shy away from that. The same God that was concerned with how the Egyptians were treating Hebrew children is the God who wound up pouring plague after plague on the Egyptians. We can\u2019t just throw out the Biblical Concept of God into the purifying flames of reason and pull out whatever is right in our own eyes and call it \u201cThe God that Saved Us.\u201d<\/p>\n

So when asked \u201cDo you seriously believe a loving God, the Christian God, the God of the Bible, will send people to Hell? The answer will have to be: unabashedly Yes.<\/p>\n

In the next (and\u00a0last) post, I’ll post some questions and misgivings that I think are justified but shouldn\u2019t detract from preaching the doctrine of hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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