I’ve been around many Christians in my life whose central theme (their life’s goal) is to share the BAD NEWS of HELL. God is always rendering judgment on people and lands. God was so hacked at the low-life living of New Orleans that he sent a hurricane. You do remember that event don’t you? Because the people of Malaysia had not given their hearts to God, but were worshiping other gods, the Christian God sent a tsunami to wipe them and their neighbors out. God is always about the send forth His judgment on someone somewhere. And there are lots of people who just love to share the BAD NEWS. Not me!
Jesus came to share the GOOD NEWS!
The end result of the “scare-tactics” is to drive us to God. Fear is the message. While we’re all called to be living epistles, whose life looks something like the life of Jesus, nowhere do we find that the primary mission of the church is to rescue people from hell. This point is further underscored when you realize that Paul never uses the word Ghenna. Nowhere in any of the epistles is hell the translation from Ghenna or Hades.
In fact, the only time that Paul uses the Greek word Hades (death) is when he’s celebrating the defeat of death (I Cor. 15:54,55). As Alan Bernstein took note that Paul and the other apostles stayed away from writing or talking about hell, he postured, “There was a tension between destruction, punishment, and reconciliation as the fate of the wicked.”
Not today! Not to the fundamentalist camp. It’s LITERAL!
Yes, we all deserve some sort of punishment when we violate truth, cause harm to others, or lose our fury on the helpless, but eternal torment in some fire-laden land called hell sure isn’t justice in my book. There are enough people already sharing he BAD NEWS of HELL. I’m going to stick to sharing the GOOD NEWS of my loving Father who is more than a Father, He’s the Allness and the everything there is, both here and more than here.
Get my drift? 
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