Not So Little, Four Letter Word

When the word hell is brought up, people try to change the subject. Actually, most people in the world don't believe in hell at all. Even Christians. They think everyone is going to heaven! But I have a question. If everyone is going to heaven, why did Jesus die? Why would God send his only son, if we are all going to heaven. He didn't have to die, He could have just stayed up in heaven. Or... God could have still sent Him, and he could have shown us how to live our lives... He didn't have to die.
This is what I have to say about this.... This is not truth! Pray that God would help you see this. Christ lived a sinless life, died on the cross in our stead, taking all of God's wrath that we were supposed to have, and raised to life on the thrid day! He took our place! He saved us from damnation!

I've been thinking about this alot lately, and then as I was reading Pierced by the Word when I was out of town, I read the chapter called "Dorthy Sayers On Why Hell is a Nonnegotiable". It was one of those things, that you know it was God showing you. An E.G.G.!

John Piper says, "We need to prize truth above temporary successes. Where truth is minimized and people are not rooted and grounded in it, successes are superficial and the growing tree is hollow even while it blooms in the sunshine of prosperity. May God give us a humble, submissive love for the truth of God's Word in the depth and fullness of it.
Listen to Paul's warning about our day: "The time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching; but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions (2 Timonthy 4:3). "They are perishing, because they refused to love the truth and so be saved" (2 Thessalonians 2:10)."

"They refused to love the truth." How can you say hell is not real when it is in the Bible? If you say that, then you are going aginst what God has said. Going aginst His Word! John Piper has a quote from Dorothy Sayers, and at the end of it she says, "We cannot repudiate Hell without altogether repudiating Christ."
The definition for repudiate is "1. Refuse to accept or be associated with. 2. Deny the truth".
Wow! So when you refuse to accept or deny the truth of hell, you are also refusing to accept or denying the truth of Christ, and what He did on the cross!!! You are "refusing to love the truth"!

It is only by God's amazing grace that we are able to see this! I pray I never stop believing this wonderful truth! And that I can "prize truth above temporary successes".
In closing I'd like to ask you, what do you believe? Do you believe in hell and what Christ did on the cross?