Jesus’ Teaching about Hell

Two thousand years ago, when Jesus preached the good news of the Kingdom of Heaven, He explained about the principles of the spiritual world. Throughout His ministry, Christ emphasized that we must never go to hell. This is one of the most important teachings of Christ.

Mt 5:29-30
“If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell. And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.”

Mt 18:7-9
“. . . If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.”

Hell is a place of extreme torment, a place where every single moment is literally a horrific disaster. God repeatedly and earnestly requests that we avoid the disaster of hell by every means possible.
Unless we follow the path that God leads us on, we cannot escape the fire of hell. This is why Jesus rebuked the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who pretended to have faith by calling out to God, “Lord, Lord!” while their hearts were far from Him.

Mt 23:15
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.”

Mt 23:10-13
“Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted. “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.”

The religious leaders of that time practiced lawlessness rather than following the will of God. By doing so, they shut the Kingdom of Heaven is men’s faces; they themselves did not enter, nor would they let those enter who were trying to. When they won a single convert, they made him twice as mush a son of hell as they were. Jesus sternly rebuked them, calling them false prophets. Jesus warned His disciples that if they followed false prophets. Jesus warned His disciples that if they followed false prophets, they too would be destroyed and condemned to hell (Mt 7:15-23; 23:23).
This is why from among all existing churches, we must find the church that follows the truth by studying the Bible. God has sacrificed His holy body to save us from the chains of sin and death and from the disaster of hell. We must not become slaves to sin again by committing lawlessness.