As horrific as the descriptions of hell are, the stunning truth of the matter is that most of them come from the lips of Jesus. He has far more to say about hell than anyone else in the Bible.
Surely that must give us pause. We must dare to ask ourselves if our own moral sensibilities have somehow been misdirected, misfocused. Is it possible that our severest problems about these forms of suffering owe more to the pluralism of our age than to any ostensible superiority in moral judgment on our part? Is it possible that part, at least, of our horror at hell owes something to our inability (or refusal?) to look at sin from God's perspective?
- D.A. Carson,
How Long O Lord?, p. 85,86
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