What does the Bible say about hell

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• What does the Bible say about hell?
• Part 3 Why does Hell exist?
• Searchers Class - 2005

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• Hell vs. Loving God
• QUESTION How could a just, kind, loving God send
  people He created to a place of eternal torment?
• Atheists claim that Christianity could not be
  true because a loving God would not send billions
  of people to hell.

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• This argument makes some assumptions that are not
  correct.
• 1 - True love is permissive
• Parents who allow their children to do whatever
  they want do NOT love them.
• Love places limits that would harm or cause
  injury to those you love
• You dont allow a small child to run into the
  street.
• Love seeks what is BEST for another

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• This argument makes some assumptions that are not
  correct.
• 2 Gods moral laws have no purpose
• God gave rules for a good reason
• Follow these rules and your life will be better.
• Exodus 1526 - and said, If you diligently heed
  the voice of the LORD your God and do what is
  right in His sight, give ear to His commandments
  and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the
  diseases on you which I have brought on the
  Egyptians. For I am the LORD who heals you.
• Think about the spread of AIDS

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• This argument makes some assumptions that are not
  correct.
• 3 Man does not have free will
• Gods creation of free will beings MUST allow for
  the possibility of rejecting God completely
• Free will means freedom to make wrong choices
• 4 No one prefers hell
• Some prefer hell over complete submission to the
  commands of God

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• Another Question How could a Holy, Pure,
  Righteous God do any less?

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• Eternal Torment OR Eternal Destruction?
• Many passages teach eternal torment
• Other passages teach eternal destruction
• If one is destroyed then the punishment is not
  eternal.

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• For Whom?
• Who will go to hell?
• For whom was hell planned?
• For the devil and his angels
• The whole list could be very long but some
  passages are very clear that those who do these
  things will be lost in hell.

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• Beyond help?
• Are some beyond redemption?
• Scripture clearly shows that God gives us
  multiple opportunities to repent, stop sinning
  and return to God.
• Matthew 2337 - O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one
  who kills the prophets and stones those who are
  sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your
  children together, as a hen gathers her chicks
  under her wings, but you were not willing!

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• Revelation 221 - And I gave her time to repent
  of her sexual immorality, and she did not
  repent.
• 2 Peter 39 - The Lord is not slack concerning
  His promise, as some count slackness, but is
  longsuffering toward us, not willing that any
  should perish but that all should come to
  repentance.

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• Hebrews 1036-37 - 36For you have need of
  endurance, so that after you have done the will
  of God, you may receive the promise 37For yet a
  little while, And He who is coming will come and
  will not tarry.