Will Hell ever be empty? Michael Lofton is next.

Hello and welcome to Focus the Catholic Answers Podcast for living understanding and defending

your Catholic faith. I'm Cikella your host, confessing to you that one of the hardest things to

defend is Hell. It's a very unpleasant thought. It certainly doesn't comport with our modern idea

that everybody gets a participation trophy. There seems to be some very serious consequences

for choosing evil in this world, for choosing to do what denigrates our fellow human beings,

ourselves, and most especially God. That seems like a very harsh punishment for limited creatures,

however, eternal damnation. Can that really be right? There are more and more Christians who are

saying, no, that is not right, that is not what the Scripture intends, that is not what Jesus

intends, and that is not proper understanding of reality. Our guest for this episode, Michael Lofton,

from Reason and Theology, you can find him in his Reason and Theology podcast, and you should,

says, hang on a minute, there is a one person whose testimony is dispositive in all of that,

and that is Jesus. He's the guy who knows, and what does he have to say about it? Here's what

Michael Lofton had to say about that.

Michael Lofton, host of Reason and Theology and Affiliate Apologist of Catholic Answers,

something we never tired of saying, because it makes us look good. Thanks for being here with us.

Hey, side, thank you for having me. It's an honor to be here in person.

It's really nice to have you here in person. You and your wife Stacy both here in town,

and that's a great pooverage for us, so. Yeah, it's a little bit of a vacation.

Yeah, people say that when they come to San Diego. We get that a lot, yeah.

Okay, so I got a problem, and my problem is hell. As a Christian, it is just one of the most

intellectually challenging parts, and also emotionally challenging parts of Christianity.

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