Well they certainly have their unique points. I’m worshiping now at a Baptist congregation (without being a formal member, at least yet) and these folks are visibly on fire for the Lord. It has bumped my own devotion up about 20 notches, and yet I don’t agree with all. But again I had a long background at a nondenominational bible church before that so I have some biblical perspective coming into it, and I can treat disagreements with far more grace than in the past... Christians here can be very good but they will not be perfect yet and it is a matter of wisdom what to let go and what to attempt to set right at a given time.
One thing I think might be a bit short of spiritually perceptive is the classic Baptist take on hell (”You wanna get outta there”) ... in the only account we have of an occupant, he never asked to get out, and it seems likely to me that such parties crammed full of hatred until sated, bereft of any love for God, wouldn’t ever entertain a notion of wanting to visit earth, let alone heaven. Those places would have too much of that grody love of God in them. I think Dives did not want his brothers there not as some noble desire of charity but because they’d be quarreling. (Even hell has its limits on how enraged it is willing to get. Ahh guys you are lazy!)
Hatred has a way of being weirdly pleasurable... I can personally vouch for that, no I will not furnish details. Living in the love of God like I am doing now more and more is truly a paradise compared with this.
Hell is just a weird place, at least as weird as the entities that center around it are depicted at Halloween. C. S. Lewis said that if hell could be pure pleasure, that black pleasure would be such as to send any soul not already damned flying to its prayers in nightmare terror. (And I would add, shocked at itself.)
Well, OK. Like the devil does, hell’s denizens might want to visit earth or heaven if it were hypothetically possible... to spread their hatred against God’s love, which act to them would be a delight. And I believe Dives realized he wouldn’t be credible, but Lazarus would be, if he was going to beg his brothers to forsake the desire of going to hell. (Don’t come here because then I will have to quarrel with you more and I don’t want to be bothered with the effort!) (Aaaaah, get outta here, we’d love to quarrel with you, you little runt!)
Hell is a weird place, very literally speaking. I think they like the torment.