A Loving God Would Not Send Billions of People to Hell, Would He?

Question

Atheists often claim that Christianity could not be true because a loving God1 would not send billions of people to hell.2 Although this seems logically valid at first glance, it makes some assumptions that are not true for the God of the Bible. Many atheists claim that those who have never heard of Jesus Christ should not be forced to go to hell.

Answer 1

A loving god would not create hell.

Answer 2

My belief is: Its the amount of a mans wrong doings that send him to hell. If he lives a life believing in Karma (God) as in he does something wrong or right he will cop it 10 fold in return and do unto others as you would like them to do unto you, I think he would be a far better person.

I am against religions and how if you repent your sins and say a few hail marys your forgiven. It gives them a clear conscious to go out and sin again as far as I am concerned. Its like all they get is a slap on the wrist and they are free to go out and commit more immoral acts because they admitted they did something naughty and said a few our fathers/hail marys. Thats bullsh*t!People should be held totally accountable and responsible for their actions. Thats why the world is going quickly downhill. People have no respect for anyone including themselves and claim no responsibility for anything including their own actions.

And yes if there is a God up there the person at the time of crossing over should be judged and treated accordingly. Sometimes I wish I was God with a big black size 14 Boot and give them all a good kick in the *ss!!!

I think the biggest thing that freaked me out when I was a child was some religious advertisement on television which had a little blonde haired boy, sunlight and a tree and children singing in the background and it was saying God sees all by watching us through the eyes of our parents. I admit I was a shocking child but without sounding bigheaded I must admit Ive grown up to be a very kindhearted, fair, good moral adult out of it all and although I cant stand religions, I have faith. I cannot stand religious fanatics who think they have the right to jam their beliefs down others throats neither. God should strike those ones off the earth, they are like biting fleas on a dogs *ss....irritating!

Doesnt sound nice having a God that punishes but he was loving enough to give us life and it was our choice how we chose to live it. Some of us do right and some of us completely F' it up and everyone elses around them. Its called consequences and the world is full of them even up until today! I honestly think all this doesnt make God any less loving.

Answer 3

Loving parents punish their kids, right? If you want the freedom of having personal choice, you have to understand that with that comes consequence. God made that very clear. The bible states that God does not want anyone to perish, and it also states that God is visible through everything. SO with that logic you have to assume that (while VERY few people are left who have not heard of Christ) God is understanding that there will be some who have never heard....and as long as they can aknowledge that there is a higher power even without ever being told, that accounts for something in God's eyes.

Answer 4

This question, and similar others are results of Christendom's tying to mix pagan teachings with real Christianity. God is truly love and won't torture people forever. He gave us free will. We can choose life or death--just like our first parents, Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve were not sent to a burning hell. They simply died and went back to dust.

Here are the true Biblical teachings about death and hell.

1. Our choices are limited to 2: life or death, not eternal torture. ( Deut 30:19)
2. No feeling, no consciousness for dead ones ( Eccl 9:5,10; Isaiah 38:18 )
3. Biblical hell has 2 meanings: (a) as common grave for mankind according to Job 14:13; Revelations 20:13; (b) as eternal death or destruction, but not torture. Even death and hades will be eternally destroyed according to Revelations 20:14.

Reputable encyclopedias, even Catholic Encyclopedia, has confirmed these facts.

Sadly, religious leaders have obscured God's love and justice by their pagan teachings.

God is also just. So, he will not allow evil ones to exist forever. These ones are to experience second death--or eternal destruction (but not torture). 1Thessalonians 1:8,9; Revelations 20:8.

Answer 5

No!

God is love. It is apostasy in christendom that preaches that God would torture disobedient souls forever in a hot place called hell.
God is misrepresented by the Churches thus turn people away from knowing God.

God only says he will destroy the wicked - as in dead, no more, gone. Not keep them in existance in an abyss of horror.

Hell is were all the dead go. The grave where they are conscious of nothing.

[Extract from the Watchtower]
But does not “hell” appear in the Hebrew Scriptures? Yes. So let us do the logical thing and pry into the background of that word “hell.” Webster’s unabridged dictionary tells us that hell corresponds to the Hebrew Sheol and the Greek Hades. It also says that hell comes from the English word helan, meaning “to conceal.” So we have found that the early meaning of the word “hell” carried no thought of any kind of heat. It merely meant “concealed.” We have found, too, that the original Hebrew word, usually translated “hell” in English Bibles, is Sheol. Now what does Sheol mean? It simply means “a hollow place.” So the original Hebrew word perfectly corresponds with the original or early meaning of the English word “hell.”

Now that the clergy have put fire into the word “hell,” the vital question is, Did the inspired Hebrew Bible writers say that conscious life and red-hot activity exist in Sheol or hell? No, quite the opposite! Instead of blazing fire it is described as a “land of darkness.” (Job 10:21) Instead of a place of soul-chilling shrieks it is described as a place of “silence.” (Ps. 115:17) The Catholic Douay Bible, at Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, says: “The living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more. Neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten. Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge, shall be in hell [Sheol, AS], whither thou art hastening.” So, since the “dead know nothing more,” or as the King James Version says, “the dead know not any thing,” it would be impossible for them to know conscious torment. And since there is no work in hell, how can there be activity, red-hot or otherwise?

Answer 6

God doesn't send people to Hell. Hell was created, by God, to eternally punish Satan and his angels. It was never intended for humans. However, ppl send themselves to Hell by rejecting Jesus's sacrifice on the Cross.
BTW according to the Bible, every person on the face of this earth will have a chance to know Jesus before Jesus returns. The Bible says, NO person will have an excuse!God has placed the knowledge of himself in us, anyway.

Answer 7

Hell is a concept of man designed to keep people in line. It was not a biblical place but a assumed place when Lucifer was cast out of heaven. It was assumed by men that if he wasn't in heaven he must be hell and let's add fire and brimstone. I too do not believe that a God who allowed a man to die as his Son to show people that death was not to be feared and that there was life after death, would than send His people to such eternity. And to all the right wing Christians out there you WILL get to heaven even if you do not acknowledge Jesus as your personal Savior!!! As Jesus said " My Fathers' house has many mansions" and I don't think He meant that some people get bigger houses.

Answer 8

Unless you know God, to say nothing of believing in him, then this question is rhetorical. When people who answer by saying that He is too good to send people to hell, it more or less comes from the fact that they won't change the way they live to understand why God WILL send people to hell. He doesn't send us, we send us by choosing to either take His Son as our savior, or not.

God is real, but a truly just God would not be God, if he didn't punish sin. If we followed the too good example that people like to use, then lets not punish murderers for killing our loved ones, because if we are like God, we need to let them go.

Because God is good, is why sin must be punished, not the opposite. Just pray and ask him! It is that simple.

Answer 9

There is another problem with Hell. The conventional definition is a as a place of eternal torture. But eternal torture would make any crime committed in this world tiny in proportion to the suffering entailed, particularly when it is a thought 'crime' such as refusing to believe an unsubstantiated claim. So the idea of hell must be rejected or the idea of a loving God.

Answer 10

God loves everyone. He gave us the choice to be a believer and follow him and obey his commandments or if you choose the other path then you are condemned to hell for eternity. This is the choice we have. God loves everyone, so no matter what has happened in anyones life he will forgive them and give them his eternal blessing. Being a Christian is one of the hardest things to do, but taking up the cross and following Jesus is the only way to heaven.

Answer 11

One thing is sure. Everyone gets a fair opportunity (countless opportunities).

Those who will not live eternally, will burn in the lake of fire until they cease to exist (Malachi 4:1), because a merciful God wouldn't want them to be miserable in such a clean, happy universe, and sin must be justly punished. They don't want God, so that's their choice. 'for those who have never heard the Bible story, here is how they are judged-
' For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:' Romans 1:20. Everyone will be judged according to the light he/she has received