Friday, January 21, 2005

how can a loving God send people to hell?

How can a loving God send people to hell?
More than anything, hell is a choice.

Hell is separation from God forever. It is not so much God “sends” people to hell as they choose to separate from God in this life and become the kind of people who cannot want God.

I believe there is a hell. In the Bible, Jesus himself talks about it 16 times. I don’t know the population of hell. I don’t know who will be there. All I know for sure is if you love Jesus and trust in him, you get to live with him forever. If you live your life in a way that separates you from Jesus and refuse to thank him and trust in him, you get to live without him forever. In a profound way, God gives you exactly what you want.

It’s is not so much God is love and so he will automatically force people to have a change of will and want to live with him. God is love but God is also just and he will honor people’s intentions towards him, even to the point of allowing them to reject him. As to who will be in hell and who will not…

God will do exactly what is right.

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