If God is about love why would someone spend eternity in hell, that is pretty harsh?

Question

I know some people have done terrible things but tto suffer FORVEER is a long time

I understand your parents punish you, but not FOREVER

Answer 1

HELL is a religious leader's invention to scare people into "converting", going to Church and give money, money and MORE MONEY!!!!!!

Answer 2

It depends on what one understands hell to be. If, as some insist, hell is a place of eternal anguish, torment and unbelievable suffering, that cannot possibly be reconciled with a God of love. It's an illustration that's been around for awhile but it packs a powerful punch: would we hold our child's hand in a 350 degree oven for 15 minutes as punishment? If, as imperfect humans we would not do that, how much LESS so would a perfect God who is the personification of love punish people in hellfire for literally billions and billions of years? That is not love. That is sadistic behavior.

On the other hand, if hell is as the Bible teaches, that is to say, nothing more than the common grave of all mankind, where there is no conscious thought, activity, feelings or anything, then since there is no suffering, there is no harshness. One either lives forever or dies forever. The punishment is death - not sadistic suffering. Death is the absence of life.

Answer 3

I agree, some people deserve to burn in Hell for their crimes, but nobody should be there forever. No crime you can possibly commit on Earth justifies an infinite, unending punishment. Granted, there are some people who should stay there for a few thousand years but everyone should have the chance to get out eventually.

Am I second-guessing or disagreeing with God? No. I believe that if He/She created a Hell, it already works that way. The idea of an eternal sentence is a lie and a scare tactic made up by the religious institutions.

Answer 4

It isn't fair that's how we know that teaching isn't in harmony with the Bible. We are made in God's image, meaning we have the ability to love have compassion, etc. Whenever we hear on the news about how someone has abused their child and killed them in harsh ways, don't we feel sympathy on the child and sometimes even anger? If that's how we feel how much more so do you think God feels when people are mistreated? Certainly he would never think of tormenting his creation forever. When you think about it this teaching doesn't even fit God's personality. The average human only lives about 80 or 90 years. To be tormented for all of eternity wouldn't be fair or just and we know God is a God of justice. This is just another false religious teaching that many people fail to realize doesn't originate with God.

Answer 5

One Of The Greatest Apostate Teachings In Christianity

Because that is what the churches want you to believe. They want to put the fear so you believe. It doesn't work.
Church leaders cannot truely defend their beliefs when quizzed over with scriptures and events of the bible that show this is not true.
Church leaders have been misguiding people with apostate teachings for centuries. The bible does not say that the dead will be in tortured hell. Rather the dead no nothing.
Death and Hades will be thrown in the lake of fire - meaning death is destroyed for those who are saved and Hades (Hell) is destroyed for those there - the dead will cease to exist with God and have no hope of ever having any life.
Churches twist God into a merciless revenger but the truth is God has perfect justice and forever dead rather than a tortured soul for eternity is the wage of unrepentance.

Answer 6

There is no such thing as hell. God is a God of love and does not want anyone to suffer. In the Bible where it says "Hades" it is talking about a pile of burning garbage outside of the city. Or it simply means "the grave". God created us to live happily on a paradise Earth to live perfectly, forever. If that is still His purpose for the Earth, and He will carry that out in the future, why would He let us burn in hell and be tortured forever. God would not do that to anyone.

Answer 7

Most societies started with a god who would punish, benevolence as a feature to god has been added later - as a different case - in some of the societies (like in Hinduism) the most evil who are killed by god find a place in the adobe of god. Suffering forever certainly is too much of a punishment.

Answer 8

There is no suffering in "hell", or the grave. In fact, the bible teaches that in the future, the concept of death and "hell" will themselves be destroyed.
(Ecclesiastes 9:5) For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all
(Ecclesiastes 9:10) there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol ["hell"]
(Revelation 20:14) And death and Hades ["hell"] were hurled into the lake of fire


The bible actually teaches a hope for the dead by means of resurrection back to life.

(John 11:23,24) Jesus said to her: “Your brother will rise.” Martha said to him: “I know he will rise in the resurrection on the last day.”
(Acts 24:15) There is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous.


Interestingly, the Scriptures are full of references to eternal life on a restored paradise earth:
(Psalms 37:11) 'the meek will possess the earth'
(Proverbs 2:21) 'upright will reside in the earth'
(Isaiah 45:18) 'God formed the earth to be inhabited'
(Matthew 5:5) 'the mild will inherit the earth'
(Revelation 21:3) The tent of God is with mankind

Learn more from the official website of Jehovah's Witnesses:
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2002/7/15/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2004/10/1/article_01.htm

Answer 9

Yep, an all good god would not create a system where injustice can occur:

"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."

Answer 10

We are saved by belief. We are damned for a lack of belief. Sin is terrible and some sins far worse than others, but all of us fail at perfection, all of us sin. Those of us who call on Christ for forgiveness, do so because we believe. Those who do not do so, do not do so because they do not believe. So then, eternal damnation is not in the end for sins, but for not believing in eternal damnation or the Jesus who can save you from it.

God is PERFECT love. Even while we sin, He gives us a path that can save us: Belief.

God, however, is also PERFECT justice, PERFECT, vengeance, PERFECT righteousness and in these capacities, the one sin that truly separates man from God, tossing him into hell forever is rejecting God's PERFECT love and refusing to believe.

If I tell my child, "Do not play in traffic or you will surely die," and that child goes out into the road and dies, did my love fail? No, obviously not. My child did not believe and the consequences were permanent, just exactly as I said they would be. If he had just believed, he would have lived and escaped the consequences of unbelief, but he did not.

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Answer 11

EXACTLY, there is a lot of things in the BIBLE that is not love and forgiveness. Why did God flood the world and kill everyone but Moses and his family that was very cruel. It doesn't make sence, thats why none of it is real. The Bible is just stories. Stories that contradict, the stories in it go against what a loving God would do. I threw my Bibles out, I feel so much less stress about life.