Dr. Edward John Carnell has an interesting way of getting his students to see the benefits of being a good student. He puts it this way. “A university president welcomes the Freshman class with the exciting news that everyone is encouraged to have a good time as they will ALL pass. The students were simply FREE to do as they wished.” That all sounded good at first, but then there’s this question, “What’s the catch?”. No catch! You simply pay the price for doing nothing. Paul put it this way, “We reap what we sow“. But, does this apply to eternity as well- to spiritual matters?

When we look at this heaven and hell scenario that the church preaches (which isn’t what Jesus taught), it doesn’t seem quite so fair. Take hell for example (please). Infinite torture for a few finite sins here on earth? This is reaping what we sow? This is the harvest principle? This is equitable, loving, and just?

For years I believed it.

I no longer do.

The more I studied the life of Jesus, the more I concentrated on the RED, and the more I allowed His description of God to sink in, the less I could see the validity of it all. How could I have bought that God is JUST and therefore He had to send babies to hell for eternity? How does that work? It doesn’t! A just God does JUST things. He’ll take the corrective measures needed (what I call divine judgment) at the end of the day (life), and restore us to our true spirit man that we were called to be initially.

Hell is being these “spirits” that we are and trying to live a human lifestyle.

Realize it or not when we say something about Hell, we are saying something about God (both to ourselves and to others). So, is there any wonder we’ve had this inordinate FEAR of God, not is there any wonder we’re not seeing many more people in America accept Jesus as their savior? We’ll attract more insects (and people) with honey, than you will with vinegar.

When you talk “hell”, you’re talking-describing God?

What picture are you painting?