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Ask Your Preacher #20
"Where does the Bible say there is no hell?

There are many "no hell" preachers today, and your preacher may be one of them. He may be telling you that there is no punishment for the wicked after the judgment; or if there is any, it will not be everlasting. So ask him for the passage of Scripture that says there is no hell, or for the one that says hell will last but a moment's time. While he is hunting for it, for evidently he will have to make a search, call his attention to the statement of Christ in Matt. 25:41,46.

In verse 41 Jesus says: "Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels." And in verse 46 we have the statement: "And these shall go away into everlasting punishment: but the righteous into life eternal."

Are not these strange statements if there is no everlasting hell for the wicked? Note that Jesus calls the punishment of the wicked an everlasting fire. Also he refers to it as everlasting punishment.

Ask your preacher how a punishment could be "everlasting punishment" if it lasts only for a minute. Jesus contrasts the state of the wicked with the state of the righteous. One will go into everlasting punishment; the other into life eternal. So we have the punishment of the wicked described by the same word that describes the life of the righteous. Both are everlasting, or eternal.

The punishment of the wicked is just as eternal as the life of the righteous. If one comes to an end, so will the other. And with all of this you might read Rev. 20:10: "And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever." Does this look like there will be no hell for the wicked? The book says they will "be tormented day and night for ever and ever."

Ask your preacher if he could frame an English sentence that would more clearly state an endless torment for the wicked.

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