Thoughts from the office……… 2 Peter 3: ‘But they deliberately forget that long ago by God’s word the heavens existed and the earth was formed out of water and by water. By these waters also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed. By the same word the present heavens and earth are reserved for fire, being kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men’. I am using bible references because I think that is the best way to understand these eternal things rather than my own limited thoughts. So Peter seems pretty convinced that there is a future judgement to come and that the ungodly will be destroyed. This would fit with the teaching of Jesus that Peter was probably listening to in Mark 9: If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell, where ” ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched.’Everyone will be salted with fire’. Jesus is being vey loving here as he warns us severely agaoinst the dangers that we face. Again he seems to warn us again in Matthew 13: ‘”As the weeds are pulled up and burned in the fire, so it will be at the end of the age. The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear’. I must say that Jesus teaching about hell does not sit comfortly with me, it is a hard truth to accept sometimes but the Lord Jesus, the most loving man ever seems to take it very seriously and lets his disciples know about it. I just want to stick closely to the teaching of my King and Saviour, who becasue of his great love for me means that I do not have to experience hell myself