In many conversations over the last few years I’ve said to people, “If God had given me a vote on whether or not there is a hell, honestly I would have voted against it. But that is not a point of pride, it is a confession."

In his article, "Is God a Monster?", Tommy Clayton puts his finger on the unpopular doctrine of Hell.

I don't deal with election in the Heaven book, though I do believe in election, since the Bible teaches it. Election does not change the default destination issue. All are conceived and born in sin, that is the sense in which our default destination is hell. Without God's intervention that's where we'll go. That's the point, and biblically it's not debatable.

In this video clip, Randy Alcorn answers the question,"Is Hell a real place, and is it our default destination?"

In this interview with former NFL coach Joe Gibbs, Randy Alcorn discusses how Hell, not Heaven, is our default destination when we die, unless we have trusted Christ.