If God loves everyone of us infinitely, how can he bear to allow people to hell at all?

Question

They say that no matter who you are God loves you. Even murderers get told "God loves you and forgives you if you just accept him."

Now, think about this, if it were possible could you doom your child/friend/anyone you know personally to spend an eternity in a fiery hell even if you only like them a little? Now what about the person you love. Could you do that then?

If God let's this happen, he does not love us, and we need to stop deluding ourselves.

Answer 1

Another intelligent Question and answer you should consider having your name next to Nitsche or Karl Marx ( hope you have not stolen any of the ideas)
Take care!

Answer 2

It’s not like we all start out as angels. Why even have life on earth at all if we would all just go to heaven? Life here and now is the proving ground, a chance to “choose” to be good or to be evil. God gave us ourselves and those around us which is enough to make heaven on earth if we chose to, but some people find it easier to be bad or selfish. He even gave us the knowledge of heaven and hell so that we would know that either afterlife was a possibility. Those who sin without repent or remorse will live eternity in Hell. Those who live with God in their hearts, show kindness to their common man and try to live without sin (or at least ask for forgiveness showing they are sorry for the sins) will go to heaven.

Answer 3

evaluate a demonstration. think of that a instructor is telling his scholars a thank you to remedy a complicated subject. A smart yet rebellious pupil claims that the instructor’s way of changing the undertaking is misguided. Implying that the instructor isn't able, this insurrection insists that he knows a much extra helpful thank you to remedy the undertaking. some scholars think of that he's physically powerful, and so as that they grow to be rebellious. What might desire to the instructor do? If he throws the rebels out of the class, what may be the effect on the different scholars? Will they no longer have self assurance that their fellow pupil and people who joined him are top? all the different scholars interior the class might lose admire for the instructor, thinking that he's terrified of being proved incorrect. yet assume that the instructor helps the insurrection to coach the class how he might remedy the undertaking. Jehovah has executed some thing equivalent to what the instructor does. bear in ideas that the rebels in Eden weren't the only ones in touch. thousands and thousands of angels have been gazing. (job 38:7; Daniel 7:10) How Jehovah dealt with the insurrection might a great deal influence all those angels and finally all smart creation. So, what has Jehovah executed? He has allowed devil to coach how he might rule mankind. God has additionally allowed human beings to control themselves below devil’s education.

Answer 4

It's the same reason why a judge has to sentence a criminal. The judge might have a lot of compassion for the person, but he has to follow the law.
Since God set up certain rules, He has to enforce them. He is not a liar. Allowing people who haven't repented into heaven would be going against what He said, ie lying.
Regardless of what some people say, getting into heaven is as much earned as well as given for free.
You have to earn it by serving God. Someone who denies God their whole lives doesn't get to partake of the free gift of heaven.

It's not about like, dislike, etc. It's about the law. God does love us. He demonstrated that by sacraficing His son to die for us. Jesus paid the price. Now all we have to do is believe in Jesus and follow His example.
Don't expect something for nothing.

If you were a judge, would you allow a child molester to go free because you felt sorry for them?
Your logic leaves out the objectivity of the equation. God's court will judge the unrepentant and have mercy on the one's who asked for forgiveness through service.

Answer 5

I asked essentially the same question -- except, my stance, as a Christian, is naturally that God exists, loves us all, and probably *doesn't* send anyone to Hell. Or at least, no one that I could possibly fathom, anyways.

Q: Does anyone make it to Hell? (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AhQdwoeuXHuxY9T.W52sJCPsy6IX?qid=20060630102552AAyzDVM )

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Assuming that both Heaven and Hell exist, as well as a compassionate and all-understanding God, *and* putting aside religious affiliation, is there anyone so bad that they could be sent to Hell? Serial killers, pedophiles, and the like of today's society aren't normal people -- something's mentally wrong, and for this, I can't really imagine that God would turn them away from Heaven because of a defect in their minds. Even Hitler, although his works were atrocious, could not have been a sane man to do what he did. And his Nazi soldiers? Brainwashed into this easy-to-fall-for doctrine of antisemitism in the name of a broken Germany.

(And don't get me wrong! I think that these people will still be punished for their sins, but for an eternity?)

Answer 6

It is true that God loves us all; He proved that when He sent His Son to atone for our sins, it is His will that no man perish. But the choice is ours; we come to the Father through the Son or not at all.

Allow me to turn your question around if I may. If you loved God, (even a little bit), how could you reject the payment that Jesus has made on your behalf and along with it, an everlasting life filled with the love and Glory of God?

God has already done more than 99.9% of the work through Jesus and all you have to do is accept Him into your life together with love, joy and peace in your heart. Now you think about it for while, we do not have the capacity and neither should we expect to understand fully God’s ways but He has placed before us a choice between life and death. My advice is “Choose life”.

Isa 55:7-9
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (KJV)

PS See also my response to:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Au9xtxaXwKS3seICrAbwmtbsy6IX?qid=20060830154539AADjKGI

Answer 7

You're as bad as the Democrats attacking Bush, but not having any solutions of their own for the problems they want to fix.
Think: what would the alternative be if there was no Hell for the people who choose not to follow God while on Earth?
If you can't think of anything better, don't criticize God's decision; and that goes for all agnostics.

Answer 8

Possibility one: perhaps he doesn't love everyone infinitely.

Possibility two: perhaps no one is sent to a fiery hell forever.

Possibility three: maybe the best outcome that can happen for some people is Hell. Perhaps it is better to have died and gone to hell than to have never lived at all.

Answer 9

God doesn't condemn us, we do it to ourselves. Sure, I think He messed up by giving us free will, because humanity in general is just too stupid to have that responsibility, but its our gift all the same. We all have a choice, if we are so stupid that we ignore the sacrifice He made for us, then its our own ignorance which condemns us. He doesn't "let" it happens, He tries to get thru to us, but we are a stubborn people and refuse to accept the gift.

Answer 10

BINGO!!!! Finally some one understands. GOD'S love is UNCONDITIONAL. That means NO conditions. A person, human, who loves you ONLY if you love them is a shallow person, yes? A human who requires you to love and obey them else they will destroy you is normally called a dictator, yes? If you spoke against Adolf Hitler, the SS picked you up and went bye-bye. If anyone reported you to Mao as not loving him, you disappeared, yes? Pinochet? Mussolini?, Saddam Hussein? Stalin?, Adi Amin Dada? Baby Doc?
And now here comes the Christian fanatics claiming that their god is no better that those I mentioned. Well, maybe it's true, maybe their god is no better. I assure you, my GOD is better.
Vaya con DIOS.....the real one.