{"id":10039,"date":"2023-09-25T04:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T04:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10039"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:32:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:32:46","slug":"john-and-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=10039","title":{"rendered":"JOHN AND HELL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s after midnight and we just got home from the airport. Travel days and packed weekends are both tiring, so I will keep this short.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We had an hour and 40 minute flight from Dallas to Indy this evening and since I didn&#8217;t have anything downloaded to watch on my phone and I didn&#8217;t want to turn a light on to read a book, I decided to read straight through the Gospel of John.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s an interesting experience to read through large chunks of the Bible in one sitting. I try to put aside my assumptions and notice what is really there on the page.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And also what is not there.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most significant omission that struck me tonight? Unless I missed it, in the entire Gospel of John, Jesus says zilch about hell. He talks about &#8220;perishing&#8221; apart from Him at least twice that I noticed, but nothing about fire or worms or gnashing of teeth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I may be wrong. If you&#8217;ve seen it there, please point out the verses to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s after midnight and we just got home from the airport. Travel days and packed weekends are both tiring, so I will keep this short. We had an hour and 40 minute flight from Dallas to Indy this evening and since I didn&#8217;t have anything downloaded to watch on my phone and I didn&#8217;t want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10040,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions\/10040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}