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Jesus and the Bible says that Hell is a real literal place in the heart of the Earth, (Matthew 12:40, Ephesians 4:9, Isaiah 14:9) eternal torment (torture) worm dieth not (Mark 9:44), facing the full wrath of God it isn’t separation (Revelation 14:10). It is a place created by God (Colossians 1:16, John 1:3) where the wicked souls immediately go to after death (Luke 16:23) and start their eternal conscious torment. (Luke 16:25) Eventually Hell will be thrown into the Lake of Fire after the great white throne judgement (Revelation 20:11-15) and that will be eternal. (Matthew 25:46, Revelation 20:10, Daniel 12:2, Jude 7)
Why do people reject the biblical fact of Hell? Firstly it isn’t preached to them, the prosperity health and wealth motivational speakers don’t speak on the reality of Hell, they openly admit to not preaching about sin, or the controversial issues, it might scare some people off. They don’t care about saving souls from Hell, the place that Jesus suffered and died shed his blood to save us from, clearly anyone who does would be preaching the reality of Hell to everyone they know to keep people out of it.
Secondly it’s not preached correctly, even if someone preaches Hell they say, well nobody really goes there except those who are really bad like Hitler and Stalin, God is too loving to send people to hell, most people are good people, Or that Hell is actually not eternal, or the wicked are just annihilated, burned up once and that’s it, what the Bible really means when it says eternal punishment is just that the punishment lasts forever but you’re not conscious you just get burned up once. Or the wicked just go to temporary place like purgatory to pay off their sins then enter Heaven.
Or that the wicked just cease to exist at death, there’s no eternal punishment or torment that’s it (they use the word destroy in Matthew 10:28 to teach annihilation theory despite Matthew 25:46, Revelation 20:10 saying the wicked will go to eternal punishment so the word destroy can’t possibly mean cease to exist) destroy, perish, consume these three words do not mean ceasing to exist like some teach, Hell is eternal punishment is clearly taught in scripture. Not annihilation or ceasing to exist.
Other verses disproving annihilation: 2 Thessalonians 1:9, Jude 13
Or Hell is just seperation from God (whatever that means) they say being separated from God is the worst torment (no you won’t be separated Gods wrath will be on them forever Psalm 139:8)
Other lies you hear about hell: hell is just a state of mind, this earth is hell, hell is empty nobody but Satan goes there and he isn’t in there yet. Or that Hell is run by Satan (no Jesus is control of death and hell, Satan isn’t in hell or the Lake of fire yet his throne is on the Earth) Or that the wicked don’t immediately go to Hell at death, despite the fact that the Rich man went straight to hell. This idea that nobody is in hell yet comes from a misunderstanding of scripture, the fact is there is a place called Hell currently located in the center of the Earth (Matthew 12:40, Ephesians 4:9, Isaiah 14:9) one day they will be resurrected and judged, then death and hell are cast into the Lake of Fire. The current Hell and the Lake of Fire are two seperate places and locations, nobody is in the Lake of Fire yet, they are all in the first Hell awaiting resurrection and judgement. Nowhere in the Bible does it teach soul sleep, or souls sleeping in the grave, when the Bible uses the word sleep it is talking about death, and the physical body, not the soul.
Thirdly people can’t comprehend the reality of eternal torment of Hell so they just reject it, “a loving God would never send his creation to eternal pain in Hell” “well my preacher says that Hell is not really Hell and everybody goes to paradise” the truth is that Gods word clearly says that most people will go to hell no matter what or who anyone else says, and that they fully deserve it, God is just.
Fourthly people believe in doctrines of men not found once in scripture: annihilation, purgatory, or universal salvation, none of this is truly found in the Bible but these are man made doctrines that tickles people’s ears and makes them feel good by lying with Gods word. they take verses in the Bible completely out of context to create their theology, while ignoring the dozens of verses warning about the real literal Hell. This is why it is important to read the entire Bible not just the parts we personally agree with.
Fifthly they believe these different translations of the word Hell: they teach that English Bible versions have falsely used the word Hell for Sheol, Gehenna, Hades, people will take these words from other languages and use them to describe totally different places, people will say oh Sheol just means the grave for instance, Sheol is just a grave, you go to the grave. I guess they use this to believe in annihilation or soul sleep. Then they will take the word Gehenna and say that when the Bible uses Gehenna that means it isn’t really talking about hell, just a place in Jerusalem.
Sixthly (building on the fifth point) they use different translations like Greek and Hebrew to explain away words like eternal, they lie and say it doesn’t really mean eternal. It is easy to deceive people in other languages that they don’t know about. Catholic Church used Latin for hundreds of years, nobody could understand it. Anytime someone says we need to go back to the Greek, Latin or Hebrew for something, that is a red flag, this person is trying to change the meaning of scripture and deceive you in languages you don’t understand. As if God would confuse us enough to have to go to other languages to get the real meaning of his eternal word.
I could go on but I will end here, the point is that Hell is real, it is eternal because the Bible says so, there are no ways around it, those who do not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation and they never get saved will be sent there regardless of how good of a person they thought or others thought that they were. We need to spread the truth, wake people up to reality and not give them some feel good motivational message to not risk offending people, this is eternity on the line, people’s souls we can’t play around in our messaging of the gospel.
Why do people reject the biblical fact of Hell? Firstly it isn’t preached to them, the prosperity health and wealth motivational speakers don’t speak on the reality of Hell, they openly admit to not preaching about sin, or the controversial issues, it might scare some people off. They don’t care about saving souls from Hell, the place that Jesus suffered and died shed his blood to save us from, clearly anyone who does would be preaching the reality of Hell to everyone they know to keep people out of it.
Secondly it’s not preached correctly, even if someone preaches Hell they say, well nobody really goes there except those who are really bad like Hitler and Stalin, God is too loving to send people to hell, most people are good people, Or that Hell is actually not eternal, or the wicked are just annihilated, burned up once and that’s it, what the Bible really means when it says eternal punishment is just that the punishment lasts forever but you’re not conscious you just get burned up once. Or the wicked just go to temporary place like purgatory to pay off their sins then enter Heaven.
Or that the wicked just cease to exist at death, there’s no eternal punishment or torment that’s it (they use the word destroy in Matthew 10:28 to teach annihilation theory despite Matthew 25:46, Revelation 20:10 saying the wicked will go to eternal punishment so the word destroy can’t possibly mean cease to exist) destroy, perish, consume these three words do not mean ceasing to exist like some teach, Hell is eternal punishment is clearly taught in scripture. Not annihilation or ceasing to exist.
Other verses disproving annihilation: 2 Thessalonians 1:9, Jude 13
Or Hell is just seperation from God (whatever that means) they say being separated from God is the worst torment (no you won’t be separated Gods wrath will be on them forever Psalm 139:8)
Other lies you hear about hell: hell is just a state of mind, this earth is hell, hell is empty nobody but Satan goes there and he isn’t in there yet. Or that Hell is run by Satan (no Jesus is control of death and hell, Satan isn’t in hell or the Lake of fire yet his throne is on the Earth) Or that the wicked don’t immediately go to Hell at death, despite the fact that the Rich man went straight to hell. This idea that nobody is in hell yet comes from a misunderstanding of scripture, the fact is there is a place called Hell currently located in the center of the Earth (Matthew 12:40, Ephesians 4:9, Isaiah 14:9) one day they will be resurrected and judged, then death and hell are cast into the Lake of Fire. The current Hell and the Lake of Fire are two seperate places and locations, nobody is in the Lake of Fire yet, they are all in the first Hell awaiting resurrection and judgement. Nowhere in the Bible does it teach soul sleep, or souls sleeping in the grave, when the Bible uses the word sleep it is talking about death, and the physical body, not the soul.
Thirdly people can’t comprehend the reality of eternal torment of Hell so they just reject it, “a loving God would never send his creation to eternal pain in Hell” “well my preacher says that Hell is not really Hell and everybody goes to paradise” the truth is that Gods word clearly says that most people will go to hell no matter what or who anyone else says, and that they fully deserve it, God is just.
Fourthly people believe in doctrines of men not found once in scripture: annihilation, purgatory, or universal salvation, none of this is truly found in the Bible but these are man made doctrines that tickles people’s ears and makes them feel good by lying with Gods word. they take verses in the Bible completely out of context to create their theology, while ignoring the dozens of verses warning about the real literal Hell. This is why it is important to read the entire Bible not just the parts we personally agree with.
Fifthly they believe these different translations of the word Hell: they teach that English Bible versions have falsely used the word Hell for Sheol, Gehenna, Hades, people will take these words from other languages and use them to describe totally different places, people will say oh Sheol just means the grave for instance, Sheol is just a grave, you go to the grave. I guess they use this to believe in annihilation or soul sleep. Then they will take the word Gehenna and say that when the Bible uses Gehenna that means it isn’t really talking about hell, just a place in Jerusalem.
Sixthly (building on the fifth point) they use different translations like Greek and Hebrew to explain away words like eternal, they lie and say it doesn’t really mean eternal. It is easy to deceive people in other languages that they don’t know about. Catholic Church used Latin for hundreds of years, nobody could understand it. Anytime someone says we need to go back to the Greek, Latin or Hebrew for something, that is a red flag, this person is trying to change the meaning of scripture and deceive you in languages you don’t understand. As if God would confuse us enough to have to go to other languages to get the real meaning of his eternal word.
I could go on but I will end here, the point is that Hell is real, it is eternal because the Bible says so, there are no ways around it, those who do not believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation and they never get saved will be sent there regardless of how good of a person they thought or others thought that they were. We need to spread the truth, wake people up to reality and not give them some feel good motivational message to not risk offending people, this is eternity on the line, people’s souls we can’t play around in our messaging of the gospel.
Or, would such a requirement being forced upon people who do not want it actually make those things something else (than mercy, grace and compassion)? 
