Joyce Pring says non-believers will “go straight to hell”
All hell broke lose on social media when podcast host Joyce Pring said that people who do not believe in Jesus Christ will “face judgment and go to hell” in her October 5 podcast episode with Wil Dasovich.
In the “Unpacking Christianity” episode of her Spotify podcast called “Adulting with Joyce Pring,” disclosed to guest Dasovich that she is a devout Christian who considers herself a “sinner saved by Christ.”
A teaser from the episode when Dasovich asked Joyce if she believes that a “non-believer can go to heaven” went viral.
Pring: “A non-believer, as in, someone who doesn’t believe in Jesus?”
Dasovich: “Yeah.”
Pring: “No.”
Dasovich: “My God! That is so brutal!”
Pring: “What! You’re giving me honest questions. I’m giving you honest answers.”
Dasovich: “And then, what do they do in hell?”
Pring: “Suffer in eternity?”
An incredulous Dasovich asked if non-believer would suffer “for eternity?,” to which Pring replied, “Forever.”
Pring went on to elaborated her answer.
“I really wish there was a different answer to this, like, ‘Oh, anybody can go to heaven!’ But I think what makes Christianity beautiful is that you don’t have to work for heaven. Jesus already did that for you. And so the only thing that you have to realize is to accept that gift. What is the gift?” she said.
“The gift is, we’re sinners and God is a Holy God. Let’s say, for example, we are in a courtroom and God is the judge, you’re the criminal. Would God be a good judge if he just said, ‘Okay, sige, ‘wag na. Like, you’re free. You killed someone’ and you’re like, ‘Okay, you’re free to go,’” Joyce added.
“But what Christianity says happens is, Jesus comes in and says, ‘Okay, Wil deserves to be in jail. But instead of Wil going to jail, I’ll be in jail. For his sake.’ That’s what Christ did on the cross,” she further said.
Joyce also said that a murderer can go to heaven “if he honestly repents for his sin.”
She likewise said that a saint, if they are not a Christian but has been good throughout their life, will not go to heaven “if they don’t believe in Jesus.”
Social media was divided between those who admired Pring for her bravery for standing up for her faith and those who viewed people like Pring as sanctimonious hypocrites who have unwittingly turned people away from the faith due to their hardline stance.
