re if there were no hell in article may athos rutgers edu smayo world std com scott a mayo writes granting that i think christianity as a relationship with jesus and a love for god and one s own soul stands just fine without hell i don t believe or see any evidence in scripture that hell is presented as a stick with which to beat people towards heaven i certainly agree with the last paragraph also jesus s statements on hell can be treated as totally symbolic allegorical or as parables as was much of his other teaching there s more than enough hell here on earth that we are freed from by following jesus that the rest just doesn t mattter to me and the fact that we can be free of the hell here is the best gift god offers eternal life begins for us now and we do not wait to start partaking of the divine nature and journeying on the path to deification larry overacker llo shell com lawrence overacker shell oil company information center houston tx llo shell com
