The Importance Of Hell

When hell drops out of Christianity, justice drops out of the social order.

Justice as it exists for violation of man by man and hell as it exists for violation of God by unrepentant man are connected by the linkage of the just visiting of proper penalty for outrage against a person. In Christianity, Hell is justice for violation of God’s person. God, being seen as the most August person, consigns men to hell for the injustice of rebellion against His exalted person. It is a matter of celestial justice. As such, once Hell drops out of our reckoning, there are ripple effects for our understanding of justice as between man and man. If there is no longer justice of Hell, for the penalty of injustice against God, then there will also be diminution of justice as it pertains to man and man. If man refuses to acknowledge Hell as the proper justice for violation of God’s person, so man will refuse to acknowledge Biblical justice for social order violations. Horizontal justice between offended man by offending man is dependent upon Vertical justice between an offended God by offending man.

People believe that they are offering a nicer Christianity and a nicer God by deleting the idea of hell from the Christian faith, but in reality they are offering a crueler Christianity since a hell-less Christianity leaves a Christianity where God’s Holy and exalted character, which the reality of Hell upheld and protected, is eclipsed. Getting rid of Hell, gets rid of the Holiness of God.

Hell-less Christianity is also a crueler Christianity because in hell-less Christianity we have a Christ on the cross paying the penalty for sin so that men might be delivered from hell. But if Hell doesn’t exist then the death of Christ was and is superfluous. To void the truth of Hell from Christianity is to diminish the work of Christ because Christ died to take on the penalty of Hell for the elect.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him. View all posts by jetbrane