Plain Truth 1962 (Vol XXVII No 08) Aug - Lcgmn.com

Is There a
REAL HELL FIRE?
There is no need to live in fear and doubt- YOU CAN
KNOW what and where hell is, who goes to hell and
whether any can leave hell. Read the answers, plainly
written and explained from God's Own Word.
Sue the fat one went on "witnessing
for Christ," crudely informing all of
the patrons of the restauram they would
go (Q hell and suffer in ever-burning
Aames unless the)' accepted Jesus Christ!
While she was screaming this message
at the [OP of her lungs, her disheveled
parmer bent near a parron's ear and
whispered, "If you died today, would
you. be ready to meet Jesus?"
Recovering from his shock, the manager
invited these three self-scyled
prophetesses [0 leave his esrablishment.
Things quieted ' down, and the hum of
convers:Hion again rewrned to near
normal-but few were talking abom
business anymore. The name of Jesus
Christ had been used in a very unsavory
sirua[ion-people's scomachs were upser,
food had been spilled on some
clorhing, nerves \vere sharrered and on
edge, the train of thought of rhose disby
Da vid Jan Hill
THE RESTAURANT was crowded
with businessmen and women of
Pasadena discussing their day's
business over lunch. Fined in berween a
bank building and a har shop. this particular
restaurant was long and narrow
so that many of chose sitting in the rear
could nOt see what was going on coward
rhe entrance. A bout 12: 30, when people
were still standing in line waiting to gee
a cable, three women walked in. Two
were rather skinny, one was overly
plump, all were unkempt and disheveled.
Ahom halfway to rhe rear of the
restaurant, the fat onc burst out in a
loud voice screaming, "FiRE! FIRE!
FIRE! Hell fire alld brimstone!"
Panic struck! Diners jumped [Q their
feet, dishes clattered to the Aoor as patrons
[Cied [0 leave through the nearest
exit in response co the one word they
had heard over the hubbub of conversatiOn-"PIRE!
.,
cussing business over their lunch had
been forgonen-for some the whole day
IJad been ruined!
But despite her crude manner of presenring
ir, does the hell fire rhis plump
prophetess preached really exist?
World of Confusion!
At the dose of the 20th century when
mankind seems to have mOre knowledge
on any given paim than he has ever
had in his emire history, there is more
confusion, mixed-up ideas and supersririons
prevailing abour [his burning
issue of hell than ever before! God·de·
fying atheists and narrow-m.inded scien·
rists loudly proclaim they do not even
believe God exists, much less a heaven
Or hell. On the ocher hand are religious
people who, for sake of dogma, or be·
cause ie suits their sense of justice, believe
there is an ever-burning, neverconsuming,
mcturing hell fire that awaits
those who do nat make a profession of
their Christ.
Sincere, though deceived, rhese individuals
insist that the message from God
to mankind is that if a man does nor
accepr and love Jesus in his given span
of near 70 years, the Eternal God of
heaven, All-Wise, All-Loving, Ail-Merciful
will heap unimagined and excruciating
pain in the ever-burning Bames
of hell upon that soul for all eternity
-because of 70 years of sin.
Many claim that chis is the very
power of tbe Gospel! That if you temove
the punishment of hell, and the
pains of everlasting suffering, from the
good news, the Gospel message, no one
would accept God's othet teaching. Hell,
in their good-news-Gospel, becomes the
place where God wreaks vengeance on
"sinners!" If th is be erue, and the governmentS
of this earth were to follow
rhe example of this All· W ise Godthen
criminals. instead of being pur in
jail, or pur to death, should be TOR­
TURED!
Those who claim to be God's representatives
on earth, from a dignified
priest to the srreet-Corner evangelise, all
demand thar you choose 1WW whether
you will spend eternity in heaven or in
hell! Two things are taken for geamed
here: one, that everyone musl choose
NOW; and twO, chat etemity will be
spent in hell.
The SO Lirce of Truth!
Where C41]. we go to find the real
[rurh of rhis matter? Jf thece is an
ever-burning, tOrturing hell fire thac
the God of heaven has in store for those
who sin against Him, then certainly ir
behooves each of us to find oue the derails
regarding it!
Does science have the answer? Has
anyone scientifically seen and examined
hell? Felt and smel/ed of hell? Observed
it in all of irs excruciating agony and
returned CO tell of irs existence and
conditions?
NO! Science does nor have the answer!
An encyclopedia can only give you
what men have thottght about hell
rhroughout the ages of the past!
The only source chat talks wich real
authority on rhis subjecr is (he Word
of God! ·'Thy word is truth" (John
17: 17). The Bible is rhe only soutce
that speaks with absolttte AUTHORIlY
01J this s1l,bject-a subject beyond ehe
realm of modern science, and yet modern
science, as far as irs k'lowledge concerning
the dead goes, completely agre
with the Bible in every derail.
instead of crying to illulgine whac
hell mighr be like, ler us go directly