Is your town "Hotter than Hell?"
A novel marketing idea:
In honor of the spicy, bold taste of our signature Hot Wings, KFC wants to know if it really is "Hotter than Hell" in your town. If it is, you have a chance to win free KFC Hot Wings!
Just how hot is Hell?
Now through July 4, visit kfc.com each day to verify the high temperature for Hell, Michigan. If your town is "Hotter than Hell," enter your information for a chance to receive $3 in KFC gift checks to try KFC's Hot Wings (you pay all applicable sales tax).
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If you live most any where in the south , my guess you would win. Now what the hell does this have on religion? The front Pew I thought was a religion thing, not a free ad for KFC. Now where the hell are those Peta folks.
Posted on July 1, 2008 10:54 PM
Oh, we aren't so serious all the time.
Just a play off "Hell," which is a very real place for many people of faith, and the weather --a "hot" topic. Smiley face deleted.
Posted on July 2, 2008 10:11 AM
It would seem, Doug, that, according your entry, one of the by-products of having this piece on the blog was to stimulate people to use the h-word more prolifically.
"Hell," which is a very real place for many people of faith”
No, Nancy, I think the proper phrasing would be that hell WILL be a very real place (spiritual state) for those of non-faith – in Jesus’ atoning sacrifice.
Jesus said: “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned ALREADY, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.”
(John 3:17&18)
In fact, Jesus speaks more words about hell and the judgment than about heaven. It is no jocular or light matter, but one of dire eternal consequences. While we are in our earthly bodies, we have the opportunity to be saved from damnation by repenting of our sin and rebellion, and putting our full trust in Christ’s atonement on the cross. After passing into the eternal state, there is no more sacrifice for sin, but a fearful dread of eternal separation from God and the bliss of heaven. The “burning” of hell is a metaphor, IMO, for the intense realization of this wretched separation.
Throughout Scripture, it is the realization of their predicament that impels people to repent and run to God for mercy - in Acts 2, for example, on the Day of Pentecost, and many other places. According to the passage of Jesus quoted above, we are all condemned ALREADY, through original sin, with hell as our just end. Only the blood of the Lamb stands between sinners and their hellish desserts. Rebellious and godless people scoff condescendingly at this biblical principle, but they do so at their eternal peril.
Christians are adamant about the uniqueness of Christ’s saving grace because there was, is, and ever shall be NO other sacrifice for sin; thus no other way of salvation. All other “religions” are woefully inadequate to atone for sins, thus leaving their hapless adherents outside God’s saving mercies. Hell will have a full contingent of “religious” types who have never trusted in the atoning power of Jesus blood – whether they CALL themselves Christian, or some other religious tag. Paul says it quite poignantly in Ephesians 2:
“For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.”
Posted on July 4, 2008 5:00 PM