Do Good People go to Hell?

Or for that mat­ter, do bad peo­ple go to heaven? In both cases I believe the answer is a clear no. And I think the rea­son this ques­tion comes up often, and is equally as mis­un­der­stood, is because we tend to think that actions define char­ac­ter — which to an extent is true — but that this is it. I’m sure this belief arises from the pop­u­lar notion that peo­ple are inher­ently nei­ther ‘good’ or ‘bad,’ but through... Read More

Hell’s doors: locked on the inside

I’ve noticed that a lot of dis­cus­sions tend to talk about “the damned” (for lack of a bet­ter phrase) with­out actu­ally talk­ing about them. That is to say that on the one hand, we argue over the exis­tence of Hell, and if it does exist, what kind of God would pos­si­bly cre­ate such a place. On the other hand, when we talk about the souls of those who will pop­u­late Hell we make a par­tic­u­lar assump­tion: they don’t... Read More

Hell: Why don’t Christians do more?

If those who reject Jesus Christ as Lord and Sav­ior are going to Hell, why don’t Chris­tians do more? Hell is not sim­ply the nat­ural con­se­quences of reject­ing God. Some peo­ple say this in order to reject the thought that God sends peo­ple there. They say that peo­ple send them­selves there. That is true. Peo­ple make choices that lead to hell. But it is not the whole truth. Jesus says these choices are really deserv­ing of hell.... Read More

What is Hell?

Video from:  http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/resources/video/What-is-Hell Video From: http://www.thegospelcoalition.org/resources/video/What-is-Hell1 Fig­ured I needed some­thing of a foun­da­tion for when I write about Hell — Enjoy!  Read More