Another example would be the lack of teaching of the Four Last Things, including the real possibility of going to
Hell after judgment.
Not exact matches
For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into
hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the
judgment; if he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly; if by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; and if he rescued righteous Lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked (for as that righteous man lived among them day
after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard); then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials, and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of
judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.
She'ol is a concept that predates the Christian and Muslim ideas of
judgment after death and also predates, and is different from, Heaven and
Hell.
Jesus gave us a clear picture of what that was all about as did others say Peter for example 2 Peter 2:4 - 6: For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to
hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved to
judgment; 5And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly; 6And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample to those that
after should live ungodly;
The focus was on what happened
after death, with the last
judgment, heaven, and
hell.
It is because sin is so serious and divine
judgment is so real that
hell (alienation and separation from God by persistent rejection of him) is a reality upon earth and may well be
after death.
After battling through the epic journey of the college application process, with all its emotional twists and turns — the torturous anticipation, the potential heaven of acceptance or
hell of rejection —
judgment day has finally arrived.