Hell is NOT a Lie

From time to time you may notice a Google Ad in the sidebar of my blog that says "Hell Does not Exist" and "the big Hell lie". The only reason that ad is there is that Google chooses the ads that they think are "relevant" to my site. It doesn't mean that I agree with the ad (I Don't!!!)

I checked out this fellow's website to see what he was about. His biggest arguments against Hell are that :

a) eternal punishment would be be too cruel for God

b) God says that He is not willing that any should perish and can't God get whatever He wants? (He also denies the existence of free will for the same reason. God can get whatever He wants.) All will be saved because that's what God wants.

c) the Bible was miss-translated on all matters pertaining to Hell

d) Hell would be unfair to anyone who has not heard the gospel. (ie: people in Africa)

The answer to a) & b) is the same. God does not choose Hell for any of us. We choose Hell because there are only two choices, eternity with God or eternity without God. He's not willing that any should perish, He's also not willing that any should be forced to accept Him because His greatest desire is for us to love Him. It could certainly not be considered true love if someone were to kidnap you and brainwash you into "loving" them.

As for point c) the moment that you say the Bible was miss-translated, you call into question the veracity of the whole book. How can someone say that the Bible was miss-translated and then quote other portions of the Bible that make your point? (ie: God is not willing that any should perish) This person said that God can get whatever He wants. He then contradicts himself and says that after Divinely inspiring the Bible God was unable to preserve the integrity of that book by being unable to inspire the translation of it.

d) Remember his argument that God can do whatever He wants? God is perfectly capable of saving a person without the gospel being preached by a human being.

examples:

1) Job - long before Jesus lived or died on the cross Job said:

Job 19:25

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth:

2) Paul - Acts 9:1-22 Jesus Himself converted Paul, not any person.

3) Angels will proclaim the gospel during the tribulation

Revelation 14:6

And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

4) and finally all of creation

Romans 1:20

For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Hell does exist because the Bible says it does. And everyone will be without excuse.