The Problem of Hell
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I ask myself, why do I struggle so much with the biblical concept of hell? |
| 0:07.0 | Maybe it's because I don't like to see my comrades suffer. |
| 0:15.0 | You have trouble with hell? |
| 0:21.6 | I do. |
| 0:23.6 | I cannot enjoy contemplating for one minute any human being in hell. |
| 0:31.6 | I'll tell you some people say to me, do you believe that hell's a lake of fire, literally? |
| 0:36.6 | And I say, no. And they said, well, what do you think it is? They me, do you believe that hell's a lake of fire, literally? And I say, no. |
| 0:40.7 | And they said, well, what do you think it is? |
| 0:43.2 | They said, well, I think it's separation from God. |
| 0:45.0 | And you know what their usual response is? |
| 0:49.1 | Man, am I glad to hear that? |
| 0:55.0 | Glad to know that hell is just separation from God. Huh? |
| 0:56.0 | I have to tell you how our thinking gets mixed up here. |
| 1:01.0 | Couple of things. |
| 1:03.0 | One, it's commonplace in our life to say, oh, that guy went through hell. |
| 1:08.0 | Or war is hell. |
| 1:10.0 | Or this disease is hell. Gettos are hell and all that |
| 1:14.5 | hey that's hyperbole and don't forget it because hell is a place where not one ounce of the benefits of |
| 1:24.9 | god's grace penetrating. |
| 1:28.3 | And I don't care how miserable |
| 1:32.3 | the worst human condition is in this world. |
| 1:36.3 | There is nowhere where you can go in this world |
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