Psalms 139:7-8 (NASB77)
Have you ever meditated on the traditional view of Hell? If you are like me, you didn't give it much thought (other than you didn't want to go there!). I knew I was a Christian and that one of my jobs was to warn my friends and acquaintances that they didn't have to go there.
Well, I'm not going to write a new song called "Hell is a wonderful place," but I do want to challenge the traditional view.
Consider our God. Always a wonderful activity. He is omnipresent, of course. Will he be in Hell? Of course he will. While we live out our eternity with him in heaven, will he continue to be present to the suffering and agony of most of his creation? Scripture bears out that he will (that is, if Hell is forever). His character and attributes will never change. He will be present to the souls suffering in Hell. Is that the picture you had of eternity? That God would be enduring the continuous suffering of his creation never to end?
Well, there is another possibility. One that I had not ever considered before recent discoveries. Maybe Hell was never supposed to be forever.
Yes, I know, heresy right?
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Ac 24:14 But I confess this to you, that after the Way which they call heresy, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things that are written in the Law and in the Prophets.
Paul
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