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(Part of a series on death and the hereafter)
If you were giving directions to Charlotte and you knew one road led there but a similar dangerous road ended at a sharp, steep cliff, would you only talk about the safe road? No, especially if the dangerous road was wider, broader, and more people traveled it.
Would a doctor be
unloving if a she told you that you had a potentially fatal cancer? No, she
would be doing her job. Would she be more loving if she knew about the cancer
and did not tell you? No, then she would be derelict.
There are only two
destinations in this life: Heaven or Hell. Each is real. Each is eternal. Though it was not created
for us, we are all headed to Hell unless we surrender our lives to Jesus
Christ. The most loving thing to do is to
warn our loved ones of the road which
leads to destruction and tell them about the road that leads to life.
Some say all paths lead to Heaven, but they are looking at
the map upside down. All roads do not lead to Heaven. All roads lead to Hell,
except for one. Jesus said “No one comes to the Father except through me” (John
14:6). For Christians, this present life
is the closest we will come to Hell. For unbelievers, this life is the closest
they will come to Heaven. Jesus asks a haunting question of every one of us,
“What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or
what can a man give in exchange for his soul?” (Mark 8:36-37). T.S. Eliot
wrote, “I had far rather walk, as I do, in daily terror of eternity, than feel
that this was only a children’s game in which all the contestants would get
equally worthless prizes in the end.”[1] Earth is
the world in between heaven and hell which gives us a choice between the two.
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