And, that discomfort with Hell and inability to wrap my brain around it is exactly why it's so important to share the Gospel with others!
I've never quite understood this particular argument for the great commission, unless the person it's coming from doesn't have the concept of invincible ignorance in their theology.
I don't think I explained myself very well in the other post. I was saying that the fact that I wish Hell weren't real because it's so horrible to try to comprehend means that it's of eternal importance to share with people the way to avoid it.
Do you think Anne Frank went to hell?
I mean condemning people to an eternity of awful seems counter to Jesus's message.
I'm consistently never going to say that any individual person is in Hell because God can Save anyone at any point, and that includes deathbed conversions. God is perfectly Just, even when we can't understand Him, but I like to believe that someone like her accepted Christ before passing away. One of the things I will always wonder this side of Heaven is how common deathbed Salvations are (it wouldn't shock me if it's common, but we need to evangelize as if it's not).
Why the hell would a kind and loving god design the world so that people will suffer for an eternity in hell unless they worship him?
