Hell Fire and Millstones

This Sunday's reading is from Mark 9:38-50 and includes many a stumbling block for revisionist preachers,

John said to him, ‘Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in your name, and we tried to stop him, because he was not following us.’ But Jesus said, ‘Do not stop him; for no one who does a deed of power in my name will be able soon afterwards to speak evil of me. Whoever is not against us is for us. For truly I tell you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you bear the name of Christ will by no means lose the reward.

‘If any of you put a stumbling-block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were hung around your neck and you were thrown into the sea. If your hand causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire. And if your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off; it is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and to be thrown into hell,  And if your eye causes you to stumble, tear it out; it is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and to be thrown into hell, where their worm never dies, and the fire is never quenched.

‘For everyone will be salted with fire. Salt is good; but if salt has lost its saltiness, how can you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.’

I once listened as a revisionist priest expounded on Jesus picking up a little child as being a sign of how he would break convention by handling an unclean thing (he claimed that children were among the unclean), and then he proceeded to ignore the rest of the reading.

That is one strategy used by revisionists, ignore what does not fit into your worldview. 

Another thing they try is to say that Jesus didn't really mean "hell" as we think of hell. 

I don't see how anyone can profess that Jesus is Lord when they deny his authority and put their own in its place.

Revisionists are hanging their own millstones around their necks.