Hell is a place of total conscious eternal separation from the blessings of God. If a person rejects God all throughout their life, never submitting to Him in repentance, then the person will enter eternity after death without God.
If a person rejects God while their alive they will get what the want when they die, an eternity without God.
I’m sure you have heard people say, “Hell will be one great big party., But, really Hell is a lake of fire that certainly is a biblical image. The Bible describes hell as lashing of scorpions or darkness where there’s great gnashing of teeth. There is not just one biblical image of hell. Hell is a place for the soul of extreme torment by being separated from God. Without God there is no light, or any of His blessings we feel on earth today.
People question why hell is a struggle or even fair. It is fair in the regard, that people get what they deserve. They don’t want to be with God, and so God at some point says, fine, your be without me. Now, pride keeps you not wanting God around and there’s a sense in which hell, it’s not just described by the images in the Bible, it’s understanding that total separation from God’s blessing and there’s a sense in which hell is people getting exactly what they want, they say “I don’t want God.”
Which at some point God says, okay, I have shown you me goodness and my grace, and you don’t want that. So you get exactly what you want. The Bible warns that there’s great pain. That’s there’s great hardship to the soul to be without God, It’s like He’s saying Those who want me, they get me, and those who don’t want me, they get what they want , and that’s ultimately taken to its foundational meaning.
What Happens After Death?
We know from Romans 3:23 that everyone has sinned and therefore stand condemned before a Holy God at the end of this life. But John 3:16-17 tells us that because of God’s great love for the whole w, He stepped in to rescued His people from this helpless trajectory, if they only trust in Christ Jesus- the Messiah (John 20:31), God incarnate ( Matthew 1:23; John 1:1-3; John 1:4). This rescue is not forced but received by grace through faith. And should someone die without faith in God, the Bible says their sin has condemned them to hell.
The Bible does not indicate further opportunity to receive salvation after a person dies (Hebrews 9:27). Jesus told a parable illustrating this in Luke 16:19-31). In Verse 26 He describes “a great chasm” between heaven and hades (meaning a place for the dead) that is “set in place,’ so that no one can cross from one side to the other.
Does Hell Exist?
Is Jesus true in what He says? If Jesus is love, than we have to believe exactky what He taught. If we start from that premise, then we can’t simply ignore the hard parts and pay attention to the easy parts. We’ve got to take Him at His word. The most loving person who has ever lived spoke so straightforwardly about the awfulness of hell.
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