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Timothy Keller: It’s tempting to avoid such topics [as hell or the problem of suffering and evil] in our preaching. But neglecting unpleasant doctrines of the historic faith will often bring about counterintuitive consequences. There is an ecological balance to scriptural truth that we cannot risk disturbing.

Packer: Because everyone, including ourselves, deserves eternal punishment in hell, the supreme mystery is that God should save anyone. It is a wonder. Knowing these things must keep God’s people in endless praise, both here and hereafter.

Packer: To recognize the reality of eternal punishment is, to be sure, awesome, jolting, and traumatic, but surely there is no room for confusion that this was exactly what Jesus and his apostles wanted their hearers to recognize.