I hear this often:
‘I can’t stand those guys who stand outside
tube stations shouting about God! If that’s your belief then OK but don’t
thrust it upon others.’
Imagine for a moment you’re
running down the stairs of a burning building and you see someone clinging to
the banister, refusing to leave. Do you haul them out or leave them? This is beginning
to sound like a euthanasia argument – it is, a little.
Many Christians believe in hell,
a place of eternal suffering. It’s a punishment for those that don’t believe in
God and seek his forgiveness for their sins. If there is a moral imperative to
at least reason with the person on the banister, there is a far greater
imperative to be an evangelist. Through the eyes of a Christian who believes in
hell, the rest of us are bound for a far worse peril than simply burning to
death: we’re going to suffer forever. At that point, shouldn’t he be doing
something?
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