He was a red-haired, freckle-faced lad of maybe fourteen years of age. He lived across the street, and seeing me at work one night dropped in for a chat. This is how he began: "Say, Mr. Scott, I don't believe there's any hell.”
"Yes, you do, Arthur! You know right well there's a hell.”
"No, I don't! I heard a man say yesterday there isn't any hell, and I don't believe there's one either.”
"You know perfectly well there is a hell, and you know the wicked will be turned into it.”
"Well, anyway, I wish there wasn't a hell!”
Arthur was honest; and we fear that most of those who "don't believe in hell," if they were honest, would have to say the same thing as Arthur: "I wish there wasn't a hell.”
It does not do away with hell for you to say, "I don't believe there's a hell." God says there is a hell. He knows; you do not. Listen to His Word as spoken by the Psalmist: "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God." Psa. 9:1717The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God. (Psalm 9:17).