Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World's Largest Religion

by Rebecca McLaughlin

Second, just as Jesus is not separable from the God whose wrath he faces on the cross, so he is not separable from us, if we but put our trust in him.

We have all rejected God and deserve his rejection in return. The choice we have is this: to face hell by ourselves or to hide ourselves in Christ.

Heaven, in biblical terms, is not primarily a place. It is a shorthand for the full blessing of relationship with God.

Heaven is home: an embodied experience of deep relationship with God and his people on a recreated earth.

Hell is the opposite. It is the door shut in the face of the wastrel son, the divorce certificate delivered at the moment of remorse, the criminal receiving his just deserts.

Rachel Gilson, “Who Is Rest?,” Born Again This Way (blog), August 31, 2017, https://rachelgilson.com/blog/2017/8/20/who-is-rest.