The Eagle´s Bible Toolbox

Some people struggle with the idea of hell. I just look around me and I do not have a problem believing in hell. Hell perhaps could be generalized as seperation from God. When a murderor chooses not to follow God and kills someone, that is hell. When a drunk gets in a car and drives down the road, that is hell. When a person comes home from 40 years of work and is left empty because it never filled the God shaped vacuum in their soul, it is hell. Whenever people choose not to have God in their life it is hell because hell is where God is absent (and hell will one day reach its fullness in the lake of fire).

Some people wonder why there is suffering on earth. It is because people have chosen not to follow God and that turns this world that God has said is good into a hell as we ever-increasingly cast Him out of our life. And good people suffer because they live in this world where we all make choices.

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