Please note that according to my reckoning, the lowest places in hell are reserved for ardently religious people.  The “usual suspects” of immoral, murdering, thieving, greedy, lying sinners have their places in perdition–but none of them are as low as religious sinners, especially those who propound false “gospels.”  But again, all of these sins may be forgiven through regenerative faith in the blood of the Son of God–except for blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.

Hell is never a subject to be taken lightly; and this little treatise is in no way seeking to do this.  Still, the title of the 1959 movie, “Some Like It Hot” does, it seems to me, address the horrible situation of an eternal perdition in hell.

Anyone who has read Dante’s Inferno knows that the great Italian poet viewed hell as having various degrees or descending realms.  I agree with this overall interpretation (on the whole).  Dante even had the boldness to stick some particularly-nefarious popes near the bottom of the pit.  Heaven also, I think, has its “levels,” though everyone who is or will be there will experience nothing but perfect bliss, (whereas the exact opposite will be true for those in hell). 

My point in this paper is to consider the people who self-consciously do what will appoint them the lowest places in hell. . . . Though this is not a happy topic–we will conclude with some counter-balancing gospel grace in Jesus.

To get right to the point, here are the categories I have in mind; and I am working from the bottom, up. . . .

Just above Satan and his fallen demons are those people who ascribe the work of the Holy Spirit, to the devil himself.  This is the appropriately-called, “Unforgivable Sin.”  We may read about this in Matt. 12:31-32.  No one who has ever committed this sin has any concern about having done so.

The next level “up,” in my opinion, is that of deliberately perverting the pure gospel of grace in the Lord Jesus Christ.  In this case, I would cite Paul in Gal. 1:8-9.

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