In a statement that is sure to rankle evangelicals, Ben Carson said this week that he does not believe in a literal hell.
“I don’t believe there is a physical place where people go and are tormented. No. I don’t believe that,” he told the Washington Post’s Sally Quinn.
But Dr. Russell Moore, president of the influential Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, said he’s not shocked that Carson doesn’t hold to certain evangelical beliefs like the Rapture and a physical place
Dear Friend, the Bible declares that one day you will die and then stand face to face with God to be judged. Hebrews 9:27 reads, "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment." Nothing in your entire life could be more important than being ready for that day, because it will determine whether you will spend eternity in heaven or in hell.
