Comments on: The Necessity of Hell http://thechristianwatershed.com/2008/06/16/the-necessity-of-hell/ Reshaping the world through rational and relational Christianity Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:20:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: jborofsky http://thechristianwatershed.com/2008/06/16/the-necessity-of-hell/#comment-53 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:42:38 +0000 http://jborofsky.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-53 The denial of Hell – more specifically the justice of God – is generally based solely on an emotional reply. After all, many of us have no problem thinking that so-and-so will go to Hell, but when it comes to people we’re close to or people we think are good, it’s extremely difficult to accept that they might go to Hell.

It certainly is interesting (the article), but sad. His judgment standard is completely subjective – “bad people” go to Hell. According to God’s standard though, we’re all bad people, which means we’re all going to Hell UNLESS we are covered by His grace.

]]> By: gweller http://thechristianwatershed.com/2008/06/16/the-necessity-of-hell/#comment-52 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:29:30 +0000 http://jborofsky.wordpress.com/?p=53#comment-52 Good Morning Joel,

I read your post this morning and then the very next blog I looked at linked to a post where the author was saying almost exactly some of the things you are arguing against (the article is: Finding My Catholic Faith, Part Two). Odd coincidence or providence? I don’t know but I think it is interesting none the less. The author who goes by the name of Dirty Harry has recently converted to Roman Catholicism and is writing a series of articles about that conversion process. In the part I linked to, he discusses his grandfather who was an atheist but also a good person. Harry makes it very clear that he expects to see his grandfather again in heaven. Some of the commenters have disagreed with him but have, so far, been careful to be diplomatic.

I provided the link in case you find it interesting.

Glenn

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