hell

Samuel understood at last why this being hated men and women so much: he hated them because they were so like himself, because the worst of the was mirrored in them. He was the source of all that was bad in men and women, but he had none of the greatness, and none of the grace, of which human beings were capable, so that by only by corrupting them was his own pain diminished, and thus his existence made more tolerable.

The Bible teaches there is hell for every person who willingly and knowingly rejects Christ as Lord and Savior. Many passages could be quoted to support that fact.

It is unbelief that shuts the door to heaven and opens it to hell. It is unbelief that rejects the Word of God and refuses Christ as Savior. It is unbelief that causes men to turn a deaf ear to the Gospel.

Will a loving God send a man to hell? The answer from Jesus and His teachings of the Bible is, clearly, __es!_ He does not send man willingly, but man condemns himself to eternal hell because . . .he refuses God__ way of salvation and the hope of eternal life with Him.

The subject of heaven is much easier to accept than the subject of hell. And yet the Bible teaches both.

I am conscious of the fact that the subject of hell is not a very pleasant one. It is very unpopular, controversial, and misunderstood . . .As a minister I must deal with it. I cannot ignore it.

Not one word about hell in the Bible would ever make you want to go there.

No one spoke more about hell than Jesus did, and the hell He came to save men from was not only a hell on earth . . .it was something to come.

Some teach __niversalism___hat eventually everybody will be saved and the God of love will never send anyone to hell. They believe the words __ternal_ or __verlasting_ do not actually mean forever. However, the same word which speaks of eternal banishment from God is also used for the eternity of heaven.

The Bible says more about hell than about heaven.

A seminary professor I once knew told his students, __ever preach about hell without tears in your eyes.

Among those Christians to whom hell means little, Calvary means less.

Hell has been cloaked in folklore and disguised in fiction for so long, many people deny the reality of such a place.

I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages will be our memory until she drows her last breath in my arms and I take her forever and escape at last to a place where neither heaven nor hell will ever be able to find us.

After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?

There is no HellHell is Earth itselfAnd the busy, innocently fraud beingsThey are my demons themselves

Sometimes I hear Mark laugh, and some days in the car the right song will come on the satellite radio and I'll feel him there tingling like a phantom limb. Like he's sitting there next to me in the dark. But I know that's not so. And I know that when you die there's not even darkness, and I know Mark and me won't meet on some cloud or in some pit of fire. And I guess that's a good thing. I couldn't take those eyes seeing what's become of me, those eyes looking down at my hands and my chewed-up ragged nails.

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.