Why has the good news been perverted so much? The message of hell has affected us because...
1. It contradicts the unending, unfailing love of the Father. It perverts the message with the idea that we have to love Him before He will love us. We love Him because He first loves us. The Father takes responsibility to love and to nurture, and to bring all of His creation into safety; that’s what love does.
2. It has made our worship more out of fear than out of love. Often we are trying to convince God that we love Him so that He will accept us. Perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. Anything that has torment attached to it has not yet come through the filter of love.
3. It has denied His ability to accomplish His will.
2 Pe 3:8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
Isa 46:9 "Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me, 10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, 'My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure';
4. It has made man’s will greater than God’s will.
God will not override your will. He will influence you until you make the right choice.
5. It totally denies the finished work of the cross. It says that death and hell are not defeated.
Rev 1:18 and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
Luk 19:10 "For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost."
6. It contradicts a multitude of verses that promise a glorious hope for everybody.
Php 2:9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
That is not a forced praise, it comes out of a heart that has had a revelation, that has had an influence, that has had light shined on it.
Php 1:6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.