All who die outside of Christ shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity
August 23, 2007 Christian Right No CommentsAlterNet: God’s Harvard: The New Grooming Ground of the Evangelical Movement, Alternet, 8/23/2007
One night my husband finally asked her the question: “So, are we going to Hell?” The Patrick Henry statement of faith, which Sarah and all the other students have to sign, is quite explicit on this question. Satan is real, it says, so is Hell. “All who die outside of Christ shall be confined in conscious torment for eternity.” Barring the Second Coming, chances are quite high that my husband and I and our two young children are going to die outside of Christ.
At this point, Sarah had been living with us for almost a month. She’d bathed our children and read them bedtime stories. She’d given my five-year-old daughter a magnificent white model horse, Snow White, that she herself had loved as a child.
“Yes,” she answered. “But I’m not jumping up and down with joy about it.”