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Welcome back to the program.

It's my pleasure and joy to sit down on a regular basis with Tom.

And Tom, we've got another set of questions for you.

Tricky one today.

Hell and heaven is what we're talking about.

And lots of people asking questions specifically about hell.

It seems to be weighing on many people's minds.

That I think is because it's not just an abstract issue for many people. It feels like it comes directly into their world when they

know people who are not Christians who seem to have rejected faith and inevitably provokes

lots of questions for them about what happens next. So let's, let's, we'll come to some of

those more personal questions in a moment, but let's, let's sort of sketch out your overall

thinking on this, this concept of hell. A. Samuel in India asks, what is hell? Is the lake

of fire a metaphor? Bob in Orange County says the traditional view of salvation

says that if someone is not a follower of Jesus, they'll spend eternity in hell. What are your

thoughts on this? Do you agree? Is there another option? So similar sorts of questions, essentially,

is that what we're supposed to mean by hell? A lake of fire, eternal damnation, whatever.

Yes.

One needs to go back and deconstruct the way in which the modern Western picture

has come about.

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