Hell and Judgment Under Question

The Doctrine We Would Most Like to Lose

If any doctrine in the Bible could be quietly removed, most of us would choose this one. It weighs on anyone who takes it seriously. If you have stood at the grave of someone you feared was lost, you know this is no theory. A person who is troubled by hell has a tender heart, and we have no wish to argue that out of him.

Many who deconstruct name hell as the place where their faith began to come apart. They ask how a God of love could let anyone suffer forever. They remember being frightened as children. They think of a kind neighbor who never believed. These are honest questions, and they deserve better than a slogan.

We believe what the Lord Jesus taught. Every person who dies without Christ goes to a place of torment, and after the great white throne he will be cast into the lake of fire, conscious and forever separated from God (the Eternal State; the Final Judgment). If heaven is real, hell is real. Those studies set out the doctrine. This one takes up the challenge to it.