God loves everyone?

Question

If god loved everyone why would he throw people he loved in Hell forever? Thats like saying, "I love you son, but I'm gonna have to let you burn forever."

It just doesnt make sense

Answer 1

Free Will!
He gives us choices!
You make the wrong one and you go to hell

Answer 2

Yes, God loves everyone. Even gays. And through this fact it can easily be seen the existence of Hell is illogical. More likely there would be a separate section of Heaven that you go to when you have been bad to repent. The idea of Hell really contradicts all that people claim to know about God. You can't have it both ways. Which is why I am agnostic. I'll wait and see. I'll live a great moral life and find out who's right and who's wrong another day. It's silly all the arguing people do when any tangible evidence of God has yet to be discovered. It's all based on theories and writings of people who were alive 2,000 years ago. God would never send someone to Hell. Unless Hell isn't what we think it is. Maybe Hell isn't a bunch of fires and stuff. Man wrote the Bible - it shouldn't be considered the final ultimate source for the truth. In actuality, it is possible (maybe even somewhat likely) that the Bible is incorrect about some things. It might be a good guide, especially for a religious person. But taken to the extremes, religion can be harmful through cults, holy wars, the Crusades, etc. But everyone should just stop worrying. If you believe in God, trust that He would not send you to Hell. If you don't believe in God, then you certainly can't worry that you go somewhere that isn't there and send by some alien (God) who isn't real. Everyone should tolerate everyone else's opinions since nobody knows the truth. Noone can know the truth. It's all just a bunch of intuition based on no evidence. But that in itself, doesn't mean that the Bible is wrong or God doesn't exist. Maybe all the religion people are right. Maybe they are not right. Who cares?

Answer 3

Hell is a false teaching by christians.

this false teaching was started by the catholics and carried over to most other christian beliefs.

it is a misinterpretation of the bible's mention of "fiery gehenna."

the gehenna was nothing more than an ancient landfill outside of most ancient cities that had a constant fire burning of waste and garbage.

when the bible refers to destuction in terms of gehenna, false teachings by mainstream christians have wrongly interpreted that was "burning forever in hell."

in fact, all the bible does is make a symbolic reference to eternal destruction when it talks about gehenna, because anything that was thrown into the gehenna (which like i said was an actual place outside of most major cities) would be gone forever.

christianity has falsely turned that into stories of hellfire.

that is not what it is. there is no hell, only eternal nonexistance.

so if you don't find God's favor, you will be destroyed and simply cease to exist, not burn forever in hell.

Traditional christianity is wrong on so many levels. Christmas and Easter are more examples, but that's too long to explain now...

Answer 4

My answers come from the bible (the Christian bible) which I believe is the word of God as spoken through the prophets. To answer you question I will need a framework:

Heaven is where God is and hell is where he is not. Earth is where man is. The goal is for man to be with God. But how do we know if that goal was made? We don't, but God does. God, not man. judges.

God is spirit. Man is body, soul, and spirit. We worship God in spirit and in truth. God is love.

So how can God allow man to be without him? How can God who existed before and created everything that we can observe do this? God doesn't send anyone to hell, man sends himself. But how does man do this? Again God, not man, judges.

This is what is stated in the Christian bible. It is revealed knowledge that we believe or not believe. More over, there are things within its pages that we find hard to understand (senses knowledge). The bible is the word of God, but that doesn't mean we will understand everything.

What doesn't make sense (by man's observation) to you, to any one, may not be something even reveal will be understood. God reveals, man observes.

Your answer: There are things that make no sense especially when it come to God.

Answer 5

Welcome to Calvinism! Yes, we are all a bunch of robots destined for destruction. The original Robot had free choice, and chose to accept a virus called sin.exe which destined it to destruction along with all future robots that would now head down the same path. All robots always had free choice, but they only have the capability to choose that one road that ends up in Hell. And that means every single robot.

But the Creator designed a "patch" called Jesus.exe and made it available to the robots. Except that the robots can be shown the Salvation flowchart all day long, but the robots have the virus and won’t listen. They have ready access to that patch, but the Holy Spirit has to be the one to press “Enter” so that the program executes. Now, when Jesus.exe runs, the robots are "awakened" and they see where they could have ended up, and are extremely grateful to the Creator for reprogramming them. And they want every robot to “wake up” and hear the Good News. But they have no idea who the Holy Spirit will hit the “Enter” button with next. They just know that they can now have a relationship with their Creator and their reprogramming commands them to witness to others knowing that some will have that Good News patch executed and some won't.

Some of the "awakened" robots believe that they have been the one to press the “Enter” key. Those are the Arminian robots. Glory to the Arminian robots who believe that sin.exe wasn’t bad enough to wipe out their ability to choose the Creator. The Calvinist robots see the virus as one that knocked out all power to do anything except seek their own damnation. But it took God to hit that button, and it’s all the more reason to glorify Him for doing so.

Now to answer your question. The robots did this to themselves, every one of us deserves Hell. The Creator didn't have to provide a fix for us, and He would have been completely justified in not doing anything. But He didn't do that. For some odd reason He provided a way out of and away from destruction. And the awakened robots are standing there in shock that God actually desired a relationship with them. Not everybody, but those that the Creator chose in love. Why not everybody? We don't know, it sure would be nice if everybody realized what God has done for them. But we are His creation, He's not ours. And this is how He runs His world, & we don't get to tell the builder how to build.

Answer 6

God loves us so much that He sent his Son to pay our sin debt by dying on a cross. Everyone has access to this free gift. If a person despises the gracious kindness of God then that's their fault not His. God doesn't send people to hell. People choose whether or not they want to be with God through Jesus and if they choose not to be with Him then He honors their choice.

John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world so that He might condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe has been condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness more than the light, because their works were evil.

Answer 7

Hell is and was created for Satan and his angels it is not God will that any perish. that's why he Gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life. Psalm 24:1 The earth is the LORD'S,and the fullness thereof:
and they that dwell there in we have a choice to make in this life it's a person's on decision where he or she chooses to spend eternity.
and when and if you do make a decision to follow Christ it's a daily walk
Have a Blessed Life and read your Bible everyday ask God to give you an understand of his word.

Answer 8

You are right. God does not torture anybody in hell forever but is in fact a loving God who in faith allows souls to come to him/her/it for eternity. Having freewill we will like the waves on the shore experience many ascensions, and falls away from the Divine.

Check out this link on Christianity and Reincarnation. Some within the Catholic Church, along with several Roman emperors (i.e. Constantine and Justinian) on purposely changed this widely known and accepted doctrine.

http://reluctant-messenger.com/reincarnation-pope.htm

Answer 9

God is not a warden. He doesn't throw people in hell. We are taught that before we are accepted into heaven, we are in hell until judged. If we are not saved, we are just left there.

God takes the fruit off the vine, then leaves the branches and twigs to burn.

Answer 10

God loved Jacob but hated Esau.
Who knows the mind of God? We humans are not capable of such lofty thoughts.
There are just simply no answers to many questions about God
My favorite answer is God is smart

Answer 11

Only the fear-based oppressive christian view of god burns people in hell. There are many, many more aspects/perspectives to god than that malarkey.

I mean would any parent (divine or otherwise) really say "oh, you are not doing it my way....so I'm going to put you in the oven...forever"....uh NO. That's really not free will is it?

(this is also why they spank their children)