Nascent Thinker | Contemplations Along The Way

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 want to be there.  I think the rea­son­ing is some­thing like this: “Every knee will bow and con­fess Jesus as Lord. There­fore, all will want to be with Jesus, espe­cially those going to Hell, who will be filled with regret”. I’m not entirely sure I believe this. In fact, I’m fairly cer­tain I don’t. I’m not even sure why the alter­na­tive has been long ignored. That upon see­ing Jesus, those who rejected … (Read more)