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“Edwards would scarcely recognize the hell of today. After decades of near obscurity, the netherworld has taken on a new image: more of a deep funk than a pit of fire. While the traditional infernal imagery still attracts a following, modern visions of eternal perdition as a particularly unpleasant solitary confinement arebeginning to emerge, suggesting that hell may not be so hot after all”
The NATURAL Resistance Concerning Hell • TheDEFINITION of a “natural man”
Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breathנְשָׁמָה nesh-aw-maw' of life; and man became a living soul. • Proverbs 20:27 The spiritנְשָׁמָהnesh-aw-maw' of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
The NATURAL Resistance Concerning Hell • TheDEFINITION of a “natural man”
Romans 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; andsodeath passed upon all men, for that all have sinned
John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
John 3:3-6 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
The NATURAL Resistance Concerning Hell • TheDEFINITION of a “natural man” • TheCONDITIONof a “natural man”
The NATURAL Resistance Concerning Hell • TheDEFINITION of a “natural man” • TheCONDITIONof a “natural man” • (sinfulness, un-holiness, consequences)
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
Romans 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. • 1 Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. • Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God
The NATURAL Resistance Concerning Hell • TheDEFINITION of a “natural man” • TheCONDITION of a “natural man” • (sinfulness, un-holiness, consequences)
The NATURAL Resistance Concerning Hell • The HUMAN Rationalization Concerning Hell
The HUMAN Rationalization Concerning Hell • “Jesus would never send me to hell”
“Most people who are going to hell find it more comfortable to deny that fact than admit it. Their enemies assure them they are not going to hell. Their friends warn them that they are. Foolishly, they make their enemies friends for telling them lies. They make their friends enemies for telling them the truth, though with the kind of friends they have, they need no enemies”
Galatians 4:16 Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?
The HUMAN Rationalization Concerning Hell “Jesus would never send me to hell” “Jesus would never send anyoneto hell”
“How can Christians possibly project a deity of such cruelty and vindictiveness as to inflict everlasting torture upon his creatures, however sinful they may have been? A God who would do such a thing, is more nearly like Satan than like God”
The NATURAL Resistance Concerning Hell • The HUMAN Rationalization Concerning Hell • The BIBLICAL Reality Concerning Hell
The BIBLICAL Reality Concerning Hell • “NICE people” go there
Proverbs 14:12(a) There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, ….
Proverbs 14:12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
The BIBLICAL Reality Concerning Hell • “GOOD people” go there
Romans 3:10-12 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one: There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
The BIBLICAL Reality Concerning Hell • “RELIGIOUS people” go there
Matthew 7:21-23 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
The BIBLICAL Reality Concerning Hell • “MOST people” go there
Matthew 7:13-14 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
The NATURAL Resistance Concerning Hell • The HUMAN Rationalization Concerning Hell • The BIBLICAL Reality Concerning Hell
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God
Real, Damnation, Everlasting, Outer Darkness, Unquenchable Thirst, No Rest, Weeping, Wailing , Gnashing • The BIBLICAL Reality Concerning Hell
The NATURAL Resistance Concerning Hell • The HUMAN Rationalization Concerning Hell • The BIBLICAL Reality Concerning Hell • The DIVINE Requisite Concerning Hell
James 1:17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
1 Timothy 6:16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the lightwhich no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom behonour and power everlasting. Amen. • Psalms 145:17 The LORD is righteousin all his ways, and holyin all his works.
Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodlinessand unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness
Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God • Romans 6:23(a) For the wages of sin is death; …
The NATURAL Resistance Concerning Hell • The HUMAN Rationalization Concerning Hell • The BIBLICAL Reality Concerning Hell • The DIVINE Requisite Concerning Hell
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
1 Timothy 2:4 Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
The NATURAL Resistance Concerning Hell • The HUMAN Rationalization Concerning Hell • The BIBLICAL Reality Concerning Hell • The DIVINE Requisite Concerning Hell
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men
The NATURAL Resistance Concerning Hell • The HUMAN Rationalization Concerning Hell • The BIBLICAL Reality Concerning Hell • The DIVINE Requisite Concerning Hell