What if There Is No Hell?

So asks the cover of a recent issue of TIME Magazine. Rod Bell's book, Love Wins has really caused the stir these days. Rod Bell, pastors a mega-church and so gets a hearing in the world, whether Christian or not. Bell's book questions the existence of hell, at least in the same sense that Christians have taken it for centuries. And questioning the existence of hell has gotten all sorts of people questioning a lot of things.

(Of course a hearing is not necessarily a following.)

• What does it mean to be a Christian?
• What does it mean to be an Evangelical?
• What part of the Bible ought to be taken literally?

And, as with TIME Magazine, What If There Is No Hell?

The consequences would be dramatic. If hell does not exist then Jesus Christ is at best deceived Himself and therefore no god and if God and knows there is no hell, a liar. If hell does not exist we may as well do as the men and women of Noah's day and eat and drink and be merry. For when we die, we die. If hell does not exist there is no true consequence of immorality and therefore no real morality. If hell does not exist, if, as Bell suggests, all men will make it to God's heaven somehow anyway, then the best a man can do is get the best out of life he possibly may. There is no reason to submit to government, certainly no reason to die for it. No cause worth fighting for except the cause of one's own enrichment.

But I have what I think is a much more important question; What if Hell Does Exist?

• What if what Jesus said is true?
• What if the Bible record is right?
• What if the testimony and preaching of Christians for 2000 years is accurate?

What if Hell does exist and someone ends up going there because some so-called Christian questioned it and some magazine promoted it and some hopeful multitudes believed it?

After all no one knows for sure.

No one has ever gone there and come back to give us a report.

No one except Jesus. 

Marvin McKenzie

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