What awaits the unrepentant? Eternal conscious suffering? A second death?

With biblical clarity and personal grace, Rubel Shelly explores what the Bible says about Hell. Reasoning that its symbolism and apocalyptic language are properly read in light of Scripture’s narrative language—rather than the reverse—he explains the textual evidence and logic that combine to require rethinking the views of Augustine,
Jonathan Edwards, and many contemporary evangelists.

The God of Holy Scripture is holy and just, and the judgment of sin must not be compromised. That same God is also love and grace, and his just wrath is not the merciless torture of bloodthirsty pagan deities—the image of eternal conscious torment that drives people away from the Christian gospel. How, then, should we understand what the Bible says about Hell?

God honors human choice and allows each of us to decide.

“The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom 6:23).