Quote Source – Jeff Hilles

A Biblical Christian worldview perspective – In conversations with a monk, he argued that the Bible was not clear on the painful nature of Hell, and thought that perhaps it would be like our earthly experience. Further, he offered the tradition of purgatory as a strong possibility.

I Responded…

Respectfully, I agree it [purgatory] is a tradition, not Biblical. And I also agree that there are, from a human perspective, both contradictory descriptions of Hell, and a sense that there are levels (and perhaps levels of Heaven as well, ex. crowns). However, in the case of both places, the assumption of levels should not take away from the vivid descriptions of their extremes.

Hell will be Hell, regardless of the details of darkness, isolation, yet burning sulfur and fire. Heaven will be Heaven regardless of the number of crowns each of us gets to lay at the feet of Jesus, which perhaps is indictive of our closeness to Him.

To use these points of relativity to undermine the extremes of both eternal endpoints is disingenuous at best and heretical at worst.

Salvation – Eternal Life in Less Than 150 Words

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