Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, October 16th.

Does the reality of an eternal place of torment make you uncomfortable?

Is it hard to reconcile that with God's love?

If you wonder about questions like these,

listen closely for the unchanging truth about hell.

When you read the Bible and those who do not believe in hell, begin to argue there is no hell.

Their first line of argument is that God is a God of love and he is.

That God is a God of justice and oftentimes when they bring up the fact that he's a

God of justice what they do not realize is that is the one attribute of God that

condemns a man because he is a god of justice and all the rationalization

the world will never be able to eliminate hell. Now second aspect of it is that

sometimes people say well all of these characteristics or all

of these references, rather, to hell are all symbodical.

And don't do not really mean hell?

Now my friend, if a word symbolizes something or if a story symbolizes something you're talking about a description of the real thing even if it is only symbolic and it is not simply symbolic even even if it were, that is an attempt to explain something that

human words cannot explain the intensity of hell.

Now man doesn't want to believe in hell if he's rejected Jesus Christ

because he knows if he accepts the biblical fact of hell what his future is going

to hold. So the first thing a lost man wants to do is to eliminate

certain passages of scripture. And I don't blame him. I will do the same thing. If I did not

intend to give my heart to Christ, there are certain passages and I could name several of them right quickly that I would eliminate one of them being that the only way to get to God is through Jesus Christ. I eliminate part of John 14. I'd eliminate Revelation 20, and I could just go through the scriptures

telling you parts of the Bible that I would eliminate. The only problem is that that book from

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