We like to think of Jesus as gentle and loving.
Some people even teach that the love of God means there can’t be a hell.
They’re reading selectively and ignoring passages that describe the wrath of Jesus.
In fact, most of what the Bible teaches about hell comes from the lips of an angry Jesus. In one outburst he consigned the entire town where he lived to hell!
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“And you, Capernaum, will you be lifted up to the skies? No, you will go down to the depths I the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day.” — Matthew 11:23 (NIV)
Christians today like to think of Jesus as loving, kind, gentle, and accepting. He is certainly all of that. The thought of Jesus getting angry or rejecting anyone bothers us. The Greek for “the depths” is Hades, or hell. That makes us very uncomfortable. Let us not make the mistake of ignoring Jesus’ wrath
Early in his ministry Jesus moved from Nazareth to Capernaum.… Read the rest