If god loves us why does he send us to hell?
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It is ridiculous to actually say that God purposefully sends anyone to hell. Our creator in no stretch of the imagination points a finger at a soul and says, “Off to hell with you, I don’t like you sinner!” It is also absurd to think that God, who does in fact love, intentionally sends anyone to hell after they have been judged. God does not want anyone to go to hell, that is not an opinion that is a fact.
God loves everyone and every living thing, no matter how badly God is treated, no matter how many times he is disappointed. Think of David and his unfortunate sin, or how about the people that God sent Moses to save, how they constantly chastise him over and over. The Lord still loved and provided, he may have gotten upset but love still prevailed.
It is not God who sends someone to hell it is themselves; believe it or not the hardest thing for people to do is to forgive themselves, even after they have been saved. It is a hard notion to comprehend, “All I have to do is ask for forgiveness and I can go to heaven” in a nutshell that is it. The Devil will keep seeds of doubt locked in the brain and if you refuse to keep nourishing the spirit through prayer and the word, those seeds will take root, and once again a soul is falling away from the Lord into the red-zone.
God asks for attention, he gives us the tools; it is ultimately up to the person to follow them and use them. The Lord has given everyone the tools and the key to heaven because he loves us, to prevent anyone to go to hell. The murderer that has asked for forgiveness and believes has a better chance of going to heaven then the kind person who doubts.
The trinity is set-up to give us simple step-by-step instructions and guidance to go to heaven. The instruction given to us from the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost is a “Dummy’s Guide to Heaven” it is easy to follow! It is the Devil that makes it hard on this earth, he wants you, and he will try with all his power to claim you.
“So if he loves us so much why doesn’t he intervene?” he does. God always gets involved but it is usually someone’s free will that denies the help. God will not shoot lightning down on your attackers, just the same as he will not shoot you with lightning when you are gossiping. God has a plan for every single soul and every action we perform has already been determined, the only thing not determined is where your heart will be when it is your time.
Lets say that there is a pool that people get into that sustains life because of the purity of the water. Let’s also say that everyone before they get in is covered with mud so they are given tickets to take a shower. Before they can get in to the pool they must be clean to prevent poison from polluting the water. There is an individual that has plenty of time to get in the shower and is given plenty of tickets to take as many showers as he wants but refuses, and now he/she’s time to get in the pool has come. Now the creator of the pool, as much as he hates it, and all the tears he is shedding, has no choice but to send this person to death, “Why?” you ask, because he would have polluted the pool and killed everyone in the pure water; the people who followed the simple instruction of jumping in the shower to clean themselves off.
The above metaphor is just a quick idea of what God is going through it is not his choice to send someone to hell. It is merely there choice, and because of the way God has created everything, his will must be done to maintain all he has created and planned.
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The person who wrote this article is ridiculous. You said god doesnt send anyone to hell.... WHY DOES IT EVEN EXIST. if he doesnt want anyone to go to hell all he has to do is take hell away. simple. Or he can just show himself so that everyone will have proof he exists and beleive in him. you should ask yourself why got would God create enternal suffering for people who have sex before marriage. ridiculous
First of all I would like to say that the most misinterpreted verse of the bible is John 3:16. To assume that God loves everyone is to also assume that he would not allow anyone to go to perdition (Romans 8:35-39). The majority of the Christian faith today believes in some way or another that God can't hate anyone. It would be a better statement to say there is no one worthy of salvation (Romans 3:11-18). That being said, where does that leave mankind? Most people tend to forget what happened at the beginning of time to Adam and Eve. When they ate of the fruit God banished them from the Garden of Eden and told them "...for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." (Gen 3:19) That one single event doomed all of mankind. To say that God sends people to hell is to say that man can choose his own destiny, in other words they are both false. God doesn't send people to hell no more than man can choose either hell or heaven. God is a sovereign being, he is always right no matter what and we have no right to question his authority (Romans 9:20). Adam and Eve's one single event set mankind on a path of no return, we are already on the road to hell whether we like it or not. Then what is to be said about salvation? Grace itself is the answer. God's grace is the only thing that stands between his children and hell. The word grace means unmerited favor. He bestows his grace on man without man having to say "I don't want it" or "Thanks, I'm glad to accept it." I've heard many people say "God's not going to force himself on anyone." That's simply the wrong way to look at it. It's not a matter of force when God reveals himself to you and you realize who God is and who you truly are, a sinner not worth of saving. He replaces the stony heart with a heart of flesh (Ezek 36:26). He's not going to give man a heart of flesh and understanding just so man can turn around and say, "I don't want that right now." That was the difference between the Pharisee and the publican praying in the temple (Luke 18:10-14). The Pharisee didn't even realize how low he was. He was praying like he was better than the publican and all the other people who didn't do the great things he did for God. The publican "...would not lift so much as his eyes unto heaven." He knew he was an unworthy soul. So what are Christians to do about all the immoral and unsaved souls in the world? Nothing. That's right, nothing. Man cannot do a thing to help another soul's salvation no more than he can help his own (Romans 9:15). Jesus asked Peter three time "Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me?" (John 21:15-18). All three times Jesus told him, "Feed my sheep." Our job as Christians is not to try to make sheep from goats, but to simply spread the word of Christ. Those that hear and understand are already his and will rejoice with you. "Salvation is of the Lord" (Jonah 2:9). Bottom line, it is of God's choosing, not man's. Man set himself on this path at the beginning of time. He is dead in trespasses (Eph 2:1). A dead man cannot save nor condemn himself. The glory lies with God. He chose a people before the foundation of the world (Eph 1:4). That doesn't mean he chose everyone. Psalms 5 tells us, "The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity." Romans 9:13 says, "Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated." He even laid Esau's mountains to waste (Mal 1:3). So are we to say that Esau was the only man that God ever hated? Man is in a fallen state. He cannot change his destiny himself in any way. You may ask, "Why does Paul say 'save yourselves'?"(Acts 2:40). He's not talking about eternal salvation. He's speaking to God's children and telling them to save themselves from an "untoward generation". He's simply saying to relieve yourself from the trials of this world by doing God's will. Don't fall into the lusts of this time, as with any time. "...seek my face" (2 Chron 7:14). I'm here to tell you today, if you have the love of the Lord in your heart, you are one of the chosen God gave to Jesus before the foundation of the world. You may not always understand God's ways, but rest assured, Jesus went to the cross to save HIS people from THEIR sins. When he died on that cross, that was the end of his work on this earth. "It is finished." Man has nothing to do with what God already set in motion before time began. In conclusion, Jesus was sent not to save every man, woman, and child that ever walks the face of the earth from their sins but to save "..everyone which seeth the son" (John 6:40). "No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him" (John 6:44). And finally "...he that believeth on me HATH ever lasting life" (John 6:47). Natural man seeketh not the things of God, nor does he understand them (1 Cor 2:14). Just remember, God is above all and man is lower than low. It is of God's choosing or man would have a reason to boast (2 Cor 10:13 & Eph 2:9). God loves his children, not everyone!
noexplanation, you should read the bible and find the answers to those questions. they are all in there. I can PROMISE you that. I'm not trying to be rude at all, I'm just telling you the truth! Don't just go around criticizing everything everyone says based on your own thoughts and opinions. Christians actually have a basis for there answers. Hell wasn't created for people, it was created for Lucifer who rebelled against God. And God is a complex God. What would be the point in a God that everyone could explain? He gives us a fair choice in believing in him or not. We ultimately choose Heaven or Hell. And that's that.
This helped me understand things better. I've been asked this question several times but have always been to late in finding the answer. Thank you
Christians consider the existence of their God to be an obvious truth that no sane man could deny. I strongly disagree with this assumption not only because evidence for the existence of this presumably ubiquitous yet invisible God is lacking, but because the very nature Christians attribute to this God is self-contradictory.
Proving a Universal Negative
It is taken for granted by Christians, as well as many atheists, that a universal negative cannot be proven. In this case, that universal negative is the statement that the Christian God does not exist. One would have to have omniscience, they say, in order to prove that anything does not exist. I disagree with this position, however, because omniscience is not needed in order to prove that a thing whose nature is a self-contradiction cannot, and therefore does not exist.
I do not need a complete knowledge of the universe to prove to you that cubic spheres do not exist. Such objects have mutually-exclusive attributes which would render their existence impossible. For example, a cube, by definition, has 8 corners, while a sphere has none. These properties are completely incompatible: they cannot be held simultaneously by the same object. It is my intent to show that the supposed properties of the Christian God Yahweh, like those of a cubic sphere, are incompatible, and by so doing, to show Yahweh's existence to be an impossibility.
Defining YHWH
Before we can discuss the existence of a thing, we must define it. Christians have endowed their God with all of the following attributes: He is eternal, all-powerful, and created everything. He created all the laws of nature and can change anything by an act of will. He is all-good, all-loving, and perfectly just. He is a personal God who experiences all of the emotions a human does. He is all-knowing. He sees everything past and future.
God's creation was originally perfect, but humans, by disobeying him, brought imperfection into the world. Humans are evil and sinful, and must suffer in this world because of their sinfulness. God gives humans the opportunity to accept forgiveness for their sin, and all who do will be rewarded with eternal bliss in heaven, but while they are on earth, they must suffer for his sake. All humans who choose not to accept this forgiveness must go to hell and be tormented for eternity.
One Bible verse which Christians are fond of quoting says that atheists are fools. I intend to show that the above concepts of God are completely incompatible and so reveal the impossibility of all of them being true. Who is the fool? The fool is the one who believes impossible things and calls them divine mysteries.
Perfection Seeks Even More Perfection
What did God do during that eternity before he created everything? If God was all that existed back then, what disturbed the eternal equilibrium and compelled him to create? Was he bored? Was he lonely? God is supposed to be perfect. If something is perfect, it is complete--it needs nothing else. We humans engage in activities because we are pursuing that elusive perfection, because there is disequilibrium caused by a difference between what we are and what we want to be. If God is perfect, there can be no disequilibrium. There is nothing he needs, nothing he desires, and nothing he must or will do. A God who is perfect does nothing except exist. A perfect creator God is impossible.
Perfection Begets Imperfection
But, for the sake of argument, let's continue. Let us suppose that this perfect God did create the universe. Humans were the crown of his creation, since they were created in God's image and have the ability to make decisions. However, these humans spoiled the original perfection by choosing to disobey God.
What!? If something is perfect, nothing imperfect can come from it. Someone once said that bad fruit cannot come from a good tree, and yet this "perfect" God created a "perfect" universe which was rendered imperfect by the "perfect" humans. The ultimate source of imperfection is God. What is perfect cannot become imperfect, so humans must have been created imperfect. What is perfect cannot create anything imperfect, so God must be imperfect to have created these imperfect humans. A perfect God who creates imperfect humans is impossible.
The Freewill Argument
The Christians' objection to this argument involves freewill. They say that a being must have freewill to be happy. The omnibenevolent God did not wish to create robots, so he gave humans freewill to enable them to experience love and happiness. But the humans used this freewill to choose evil, and introduced imperfection into God's originally perfect universe. God had no control over this decision, so the blame for our imperfect universe is on the humans, not God.
Here is why the argument is weak. First, if God is omnipotent, then the assumption that freewill is necessary for happiness is false. If God could make it a rule that only beings with freewill may experience happiness, then he could just as easily have made it a rule that only robots may experience happiness. The latter option is clearly superior, since perfect robots will never make decisions which could render them or their creator unhappy, whereas beings with freewill could. A perfect and omnipotent God who creates beings capable of ruining their own happiness is impossible.
Second, even if we were to allow the necessity of freewill for happiness, God could have created humans with freewill who did not have the ability to choose evil, but to choose between several good options.
Third, God supposedly has freewill, and yet he does not make imperfect decisions. If humans are miniature images of God, our decisions should likewise be perfect. Also, the occupants of heaven, who presumably must have freewill to be happy, will never use that freewill to make imperfect decisions. Why would the originally perfect humans do differently?
The point remains: the presence of imperfections in the universe disproves the supposed perfection of its creator.
All-good God Knowingly Creates Future Suffering
God is omniscient. When he created the universe, he saw the sufferings which humans would endure as a result of the sin of those original humans. He heard the screams of the damned. Surely he would have known that it would have been better for those humans to never have been born (in fact, the Bible says this very thing), and surely this all-compassionate deity would have foregone the creation of a universe destined to imperfection in which many of the humans were doomed to eternal suffering. A perfectly compassionate being who creates beings which he knows are doomed to suffer is impossible.
Infinite Punishment for Finite Sins
God is perfectly just, and yet he sentences the imperfect humans he created to infinite suffering in hell for finite sins. Clearly, a limited offense does not warrant unlimited punishment. God's sentencing of the imperfect humans to an eternity in hell for a mere mortal lifetime of sin is infinitely more unjust than this punishment. The absurd injustice of this infinite punishment is even greater when we consider that the ultimate source of human imperfection is the God who created them. A perfectly just God who sentences his imperfect creation to infinite punishment for finite sins is impossible.
Belief More Important Than Action
Consider all of the people who live in the remote regions of the world who have never even heard the "gospel" of Jesus Christ. Consider the people who have naturally adhered to the religion of their parents and nation as they had been taught to do since birth. If we are to believe the Christians, all of these people will perish in the eternal fire for not believing in Jesus. It does not matter how just, kind, and generous they have been with their fellow humans during their lifetime: if they do not accept the gospel of Jesus, they are condemned. No just God would ever
This is so simple...God does not send people to Hell....We send ourselves by our actions and choices we make in our lives. That so many people want to blame God for this is sad. They are typical of so many people in America today...It's always someone else's fault!!!
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If you have 10 kids, and know that 5 or 8 or even only one of them, is going to end up suffering in hell. Forever....not just for a 60 years or millennium, will you lived happily ever after knowing some of your kid suffering beneath you, forever. Will you make any kid at all, if know majority of them will failed in hell, forever.
Yes you will, because you are egoistically selfish, power hunger, vengeance being that only care about pure relationship out of your subject in the great deep expenses of others.
We are created in its image, and we suppose to always seeks the truth, but we all can;t handle the truth.
creator creates,and has created all that is. each manifestation of all, individual in essence of the cumulitive all, predisposed of unique natures and dispositions. the human soul was given in its creation, individual nature and disposition like all else. one being, to make choices in its application of self to the exploration of creator's living thought. and in that, creator's wisdom is illuminated, as the human explores its living animated environment, and comes to understand the natures and dispositions of those experences they have embraced in this realm. and upon understanding, realize to proceed, choices must be made. that is the nature of the human. creator does not condem humans to hell, nor forces them to heaven. creator gave the human choice, to choose for their selfs, where they will transmigrate to upon their releasing of their grip on the finitnes of this life's physical experence; for the experence to follow in the eternally flowing continuation of creator's living thought. i am, the beloved steward
creator creates, and has created all that is. each manifestation of all, individual in essence of the cumulative all, predisposed of unique natures and dispositions. the human soul was given in its creation, individual nature, and disposition, like all else. one being, to make choices in its application of self to the exploration of creator's living thought. and in that, creator's wisdom is illuminated, as the human explores its living animated environment, and comes to understand the natures and dispositions of those experiences they have embraced in this realm. and upon understanding, realize to proceed, choices must be made. that is the nature of the human. creator does not condem humans to hell, nor forces them to heaven. creator gave the human choice, to choose for their selfs, where they will transmigrate to upon their releasing of their grip on the finiteness of this life's physical experience; for the experience to follow in the eternally flowing continuation of creator's living thought. i am, the beloved steward
To all those unbelievers God wants you to believe with your hearts not with your eyes. That is why so many people are in the situation they are in because they don't believe anything unless they see it. Hell is for those who do not love God, and if you love God you would keep his commandments. Jail is not for everyone unless you do wrong just like Hell is not for everyone stop don't wrong and believe in God and Jesus.
HELLI RULES!!
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For those of us who believe we're gonna be stuck to spend eternity with God who sends people to hell. God is the premier evil doer and the creator of hell