“If you read history you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.” – C.S. Lewis
We want good to triumph over evil
We want to escape time and death
We want to experience a never ending love
We want to communicate with the supernatural
Ecclesiastes 3:11 Everything is appropriate in its own time. But though God has planted eternity in the hearts of men, even so, many cannot see the whole scope of God’s work from beginning to end. Living Bible
Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]… The Amplified Bible
HELL’S A REAL PLACE THAT GOD MADE A WAY TO ESCAPE
Heaven and Hell are the only two eternal addresses
Matthew 25:33 He will put the righteous people at his right and the others at his left. Good News Translation
Matthew 25:34 Then the King will say to the people on his right, ‘Come, you that are blessed by my Father! Come and possess the kingdom which has been prepared for you ever since the creation of the world. Good News Translation
Matthew 25:41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Away from me, you that are under God's curse! Away to the eternal fire which has been prepared for the Devil and his angels! Good News Translation
Hell Is Permanent
Luke 16:26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’ New International Version
Hell Is A Place of Suffering
Mark 9:47 And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out. It’s better to enter the Kingdom of God with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, 48 ‘where the maggots never die and the fire never goes out.’ New Living Translation
Hell Is Void Of God
2 Thessalonians 1:9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his mightNew International Version
Hell Can Only Be Escaped By Believing In and Accepting Jesus
John 3:18 “There is no eternal doom awaiting those who trust him (Jesus) to save them. But those who don’t trust him have already been tried and condemned for not believing in the only Son of God. Living Bible
Acts 4:12 There is salvation in no one else! Under all heaven there is no other name for men to call upon to save them.” Living Bible