| It'll Scare the Hell Out of You Even the most powerful words can lose their meaning when used frivolously. Words like awesome, wicked, love, hate, death, sex... these used to be very powerful words. How about another word that has lost some weight nowadays; the word "sin". It's hard to think of the word "sin" as a terrible thing in this day and age. We think of adultery, fornication (i.e. premarital sex), lust, divorce as being a part of everyday life. Yet God makes it clear in the Bible that "the wages of sin is death" or to put it in more current terms, the payment for breaking God's laws is like taking toxic waste into your soul! It's the equivalent to spiritual cancer. Jesus made reference to the people on earth at the time as a "wicked and adulterous generation", John the Baptist was beheaded by King Herod, primarily because he kept telling Herod it was wrong for him to have married his brother's wife. Is anybody really decrying adultery and divorce these days? If so they are written off as fanatical, most likely. Where is the person who will stand out from the frey and talk about hell as a reality? And incidently, reality is as simple as cause and effect. I don't care how many times you sing, "I Believe I Can Fly" if you jump off of a roof, you're going down, baby. People make hell the subject of jokes. It's not polite to mention hell as an inevitability for all who break God commandments. It's considered primitive, not PC, ignorant, insensitive to societal, environmental, or psychological "victims". Surely a good God wouldn't create hell would He? In the next study we are going to take a close look at all the Bible has to say about this place called hell. And for the record, let me just state right here and now: I am just as sinful as the rest of you, if not worse -- the only difference between me and someone going to hell is Jesus Christ. POP QUIZ: Did you know Jesus preached more about hell than he did about heaven? NEXT |