I've got this great idea for a movie: This hero comes to save mankind and is wrongfully put to death. He goes to hell and engages in this epic three day battle with Satan, the ruler of hell. It is a war of unrivalled proportions, the hero wrestling the devil for his keys to death and hell emerges victorious with the keys clutched in his upraised hand!
One problem, though: that script has already been written by Joel Osteen, Creflo Dollar, Kenneth Copeland, Frederick Price, and their ilk. While the Bible says that it wouldn't take God three days to whup NObody, and that Jesus paid the whole debt ON the cross, the Word of Faith faithful feel the need to punch up God's script with an extra action scene. ( the archangel Michael already beat the devil once!)
And another thing; Satan doesn't rule hell! Hell is where he and his folk will be cast at the end of all things. If he were "in" hell, how was he "slithering" through the garden whispering in Eve's ear?
How was he in the presence of God debating Job's trust or lack of trust?
Why should we beware a roaring lion who lives in hell?
How could he seek and devour us from there?
He is not omnipresent!
Revelation says that Satan was hurled to the EARTH with his angels.
A little common sense and logic would shut these guys up. And down.
These people kill me! Putting spinning, chrome rims on a Gullwing Mercedes! Gold-plating the Hope Diamond to make it shine! Putting rhinestones on an Armani suit! Putting wallpaper on the Sixteen Chapels! (I know!) Trying to shellac the Mona Lisa! (Personally, though, I don't get all the fuss. She looks like Benny Franklin.)
The Atonement is a flawless fact as it is.
The Bible is a wonderfully woven tapestry.
Why try to make it better than God already did?
"It is finished."
"Absent from the body, present with the Lord."
"This day you will be with Me in Paradise."
Jesus' work was done on the cross. Price says that ANY man could have died on the cross if that was all it took, that He had to go to hell to finish the work. Yeah, any PERFECT man! You know one? Another one?
Let's study our bibles, folks, so we can shut these racketeers- I mean- raconteurs down.
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