What If Heaven and Hell Are Real Places?

If heaven and hell are real places as described in the Bible, then we should find out about them. We should escape hell and go to heaven.

There is no way apart from the Bible to answer this question. I established in my article entitled “What If the Bible Is a Direct Message From God” that the Bible is the Word of God. What we must do in letting the Bible be our guide is take its literal message as the true message for the whole human race. We need to keep it simple. We need to act on what is found in it. God does not lie. What is in the Bible is absolute relational truth. It shows us what we need to do to stay out of hell and go to heaven.

What does the Bible tell us about heaven? It tells us it is a place of rest. It is a place where certain kinds of people are not found. It is a place of beauty. It is a place that needs no hospitals, no police, no earthly things. It is a place where Jesus is King of kings and all those who live there serve one another. It is a place of perfect bliss. It is a place where the redeemed of the Lord Jesus Christ are living in spiritual bodies like that of Jesus' resurrected body.

What does the Bible tell us about hell? It tell us hell is a place of eternal torment. It is a place where certain kinds of people are not found. It is a place of fire and hot sulfur and total darkness. It was prepared for the devil and his angels. Those who refuse God's call to repentance of their sins and do not have faith in the Lord Jesus Christ will be here. This is the eternal home for all those who “walk in the counsel of the ungodly, stand in the way of sinners and sit in the seat of the scornful.”

The true story of the rich man and Lazarus is a description of what happens when we die. Lazarus was blessed and the rich man was tormented. The problem was not that the man was rich. The problem was that he consumed his riches on himself and was unwilling to do anything for Lazarus, who died eating out of his “garbage can.”

It is not that God is unclear in His explanations of heaven and hell. The problem is people are in denial. They are unwilling to accept the fact that if a person rejects God's plan of salvation there is no other place for this person except hell. They think God is too good to send anyone to hell. Let's get this straight. God does not send anyone to hell. The person who refuses God and His ways puts his/her own self in hell.

Some people think death is the end of their life. They think all the things they do in their lifetime are not judged by God. These people are in denial. A just God will never allow unjust deeds to go without being punished. See Galatians 6:7, 8.

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