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A born again Christian who has a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ spends very little time thinking about hell. It is a real place, Jesus spoke about it a lot. When we have received Him, the fear of death and hell no longer torments us, and our thoughts turn to the joy of living for Him and spending eternity with Him when we are in heaven, our real home. This joy compels us to tell others this good news, so they too could abandon their fear of death and hell for the hope of heaven and the joy of a living relationship with Jesus.

It is a real place, Jesus spoke about it a lot.

Yes. It is a real place. It is actually a physical place. It is also spoken of in Jeremiah.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna

Jesus is painting a very clear picture of the fate of the lost when He uses that word (Gehenna, which some English bibles translate as “hell”). It is where kings of Judah sacrificed their children by fire.

A born again Christian who has a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ spends very little time thinking about hell.

You would think that would be true, but it’s almost all the preachers in the bible belt talk about. I know this because I’m in a southern Gospel band that plays at a LOT of churches in Kentucky. The main message I hear is that hell is terrible and you don’t want to go there.

If it was just a benign teaching, that would be one thing, but I believe the hell message damages the Gospel. Thing is, we are to seek His presence out of a desire to be with Him, not out of fear of Him torturing us. The latter may fill pews, but it fills them only with posers hedging their bets.

It also paints God as a MONSTER who created most human beings to be forever tortured. It doesn’t make sense when you actually read His word. Nowhere does God torure his enemies. What he does is destroy them.