· Atheists, skeptics and modernists have eradicated it by their “wonderful” powers of “reason”.
· “Christian Scientists” have attributed it to improper thinking, the figment of bad imagination, or “malicious animal magnetism”.
· Universalists have removed the need of fearing it since they teach that all will be saved anyway.
· Unitarians and others have decided that the only real heaven or hell are encountered by men in this life by pleasant or unpleasant experiences.
· “Jehovah’s Witnesses” have reduced it to annihilation, eternal non-existence rather than eternal punishment.
· Many Protestant denominations have taken away any concern about being lost from millions by their doctrine of “once saved, always saved”.
· Catholicism has assured millions that they will not go there because of her sacraments and rituals, and has caused many to be more concerned about an imaginary “purgatory”.
· Many have sought to remove the eternal duration and the awful torment of hell by their own concept of God’s love.
· But what the Bible says about hell remains true. You may read about it in: Matthew 18.8-9; 25.41,46; 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9; Revelation 14.10-11; 20:10, 15; 21.8.
– by Bill Crews