Wes Huff & the C.S. Lewis quote we need to stop using!

I think you might be misunderstanding why that quote is used “Hell is locked from the inside” I take to mean that sinners in their unregenerate state would rather be in hell than with Christ because of their hatred of God, not because they actually want to be in hell. It’s true that sinners desire to be in heaven rather than hell like you mentioned, but only to avoid punishment, not because they love Christ and want to be with him. Heaven is the dwelling place of God, he will be praised and worshiped for all eternity. This is odious to those who are unregenerate.

I appreciate your response and what you get from that quote. But I'd say that isn't what most people are going to understand by it. If something is locked from the inside, if you're inside, you can simply unlock it to get out. It will make some think they can change their mind about God once they are in hell and manage to leave it. Plus in a way it denies the fact that God is keeping the people in hell as a just punishment for their sin (Rev. 14:10-11).

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This is my favored quote about CS Lewis “Although he can't be looked upon as an Orthodox writer, his consistent sympathy for Orthodoxy has to be considered. As one of his biographers recalls (in "C.S. Lewis and His Times," by George Sayer), after a holiday spent in Greece together with Lewis and his wife, Lewis told him that of all the liturgies he'd ever attended, he preferred the Greek Orthodox liturgy to anything that he had seen in the West, Protestant or Roman Catholic. Then he went on to say that of all the priests and monks that he had ever had the opportunity to meet, the Orthodox priests that he ran across in his sojourn in Greece were the holiest, most spiritual men he had ever met. C.S. Lewis referred to a certain look they had, a sense. Lewis himself, in one of his letters, speaks of having been at an Orthodox liturgy and he said he loved it. He said "some stood, some sat, some knelt and one old man crawled around the floor like a caterpillar." He "absolutely loved it."

We need to stop accepting the Filioque.

You look easy to draw

Daily reminder, those who are OUTSIDE of His Church, are OUTSIDE of His Church.

Lewis is a bad idea all around. You are correct, Wes meant well but was off here. Let God be God is the best apologetic.

I am a Protestant, but I am tired of you attacking other Christians at this point. I defended you when Sam attacked you, but to go after every Christians on details that you don't agree based on your interpretation is getting quiet tiring and trying to question your motive.

Having not yet seen this interview, I knew what the quote was going to be even before you played it. I've said the same. Very unfortunately, a lot of American evangelical views on hell have been shaped by Lewis.

Thank you for bringing scripture to bear on this topic. Hell is a difficult subject matter, but one that needs the same clarity God gives in His word.