Where would modern day Christianity be without hell?

[Mike4J]

I've only once heard a sermon that was trying to scare anyone, or threaten anyone with hell, and that was 40 years ago in a church I was visiting. However there's a more subtle version of this question. What is the Gospel? Most people seem to say that the Gospel is that Christ died for our sins. There is at least implicitly the idea that without his death, we'd be in trouble. If Christ saves us, from what does he save us? It's possible to say simply that he saves us from ourselves and omit any mention of possible punishment, but I think for most people the possibility of hell is at least lurking in the background. Am I wrong?

The idea of Hell is always lurking in the back of my head. As it should be.



Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. Php 2:12


The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. Pr 9:10