Hell is my least favorite subject. Many have stumbled over Jesus teaching of eternal damnation. It is a difficult subject. But Jesus did not sidestep the issue as we are tempted to do. We avoid the subject for fear of being ridiculed or rejected by our peers. But Jesus spoke plainly in order to warn against the dangers of rejecting him.
He told the disciples, “Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of this age. The Son of Man will send out his angels and they will gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth” (Mathew 13:40-42).
Rejecting the ways of God is dangerous business.
