In our day, churches are trying to offer such a compromise between heaven and hell. Some pastors feel this is the way to get along with people and to improve the church’s public relations. Honestly, our Lord would have flunked any such test on public relations. People would not have given Him a grade of 30 percent. He would have flunked the whole thing because He was dealing completely in the area of truth, and truth is just truth—it never has to worry about its image. Truth never worries about the effect it will have, about who is going to hate it or who is going to accept it. It never worries about what there is to lose and what there is to gain.
Matthew 12:30; John 8:44–47; John 15:18–20
Faith Beyond Reason, 88.