I am doing a message this weekend on Hell. the more I think about it the more disturbing it is -- everlasting torture? I am a Bible believing Christian. It just seems so harsh -- everlasting punishment for temporal crimes. What am I missing?
Study these two verses and put them into the human perspective of knowing how God sees sin.
1Co 13:11-12 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. (12) For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
What does this mean in terms of sin and hell? Well, a child thinks and understands as a child. A
human thinks and understands as a human. You are judging God on the issues of hell and sin and you
don't even know what they both are. You haven't seen sin, just the results of sin. And even then,
its being restrained by God. Our only concept of hell, is spoken about in "human terms" to give
some understanding, but we wont know until that day arrives. And since none of us knows what
sin looks like or how bad it truly is, the punishment in hell, as bad as it sounds in our understanding of
things, could actually be an easy sentence. Not "easy" in our understanding of the term, but from
God's point of view. Now Jesus made it very clear that no one will want to be there and that it will
be bad. But until we actually see sin and see all things on the Day of Judgement, we wont know if it
is a light sentence, got what they derserve, or very harsh.