Recently I read an article about a famous person who made an unbearable statement. I wrote him an email about what was true and how high the stakes can be.

He is an atheist, so at one point I told him that he should believe in hell for an hour.

The injunction is solid. If anyone as smart as you are is going to risk so much on randomized notions of self-determination, you should consider hell real for one hour.

This does not seem like a big ask. Hell is breaking through the windows and doors of this world every day. War is an iteration of hell, Child abuse is an iteration of hell. Starvation and violence and human cruelty all come from hell.

Believe in hell for an hour. Do the research if it helps.

Then what?

Jesus is the only one who has ever promised us the chance to escape hell. This is a purely substitutionary offer—he went to hell to save us from it.

Believe in hell for an hour.

Put your trust in Jesus forever.