“Hell is everlasting hunger. It is an everlasting thirst. It is a forever-longing and a never-getting.”

A fear of hell was one of the primary reasons for me to become a Christian. (You can read about it here.) If you take a look at what it actually says in the Bible, (versus what is just the popular notion of hell), the afterlife can either be a very good place, or a very bad place.

Just as the burning bush that Moses came across in the desert, which burned continually but was not consumed, so too I believe that it will be similar in hell. And just as the those that are saved will come forth with a new body, eternally fit for heaven, so too I believe that those that are lost shall come forward with bodies eternally fit for hell. It’s what the Bible calls the “resurrection of damnation.” (See John 5:29). A body that can be burnt with fire, with smoke continually arising, and eaten alive of worms, and somehow, never be consumed.

“And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.” -Mark:9:43-44

But remember, you don’t have to go to hell! Its not that Jesus Christ is seeking to send you to hell, but rather, He is only seeking to deliver you from hell. Just as it is written in the gospel of John:

“For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.” -John 3:17

Your Salvation: Look Up

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• We All Will Live Forever… Somewhere
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• Salvation: Past, Present, and Future
• Baptism: Water and Fire

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