If God forgives everyone, then why do people still go to hell?

Answer 1

Everyone who dies goes to the Bible hell. Hell is not a place of torture; it is where all souls or people go who die. Souls do die; they are not immortal--"The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself."--- Ezekiel 18:20
How do we know that hell is the grave? Well, we can read many verses in God's Word that assures us of that fact. Here are but a few:

Psalm 139:8--"If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there." (If hell is a fiery,hot place of torture, would David think God (psalms 83:18) would be there ?
Amos 9:2--"Though they dig into hell, From there My hand shall take them; Though they climb up to heaven, From there I will bring them down." ( Can you dig into fire? No, but you can dig into the earth and God can find you no matter where you try to hide.)
Jonah 2:2--"And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice." ( The belly of the fish would have been Jonah's grave, if God had not rescued him.)
Revelation 1:18--"I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death." (Why would Jesus need keys to hell? Because the dead do not have to stay in hell forever; they can be resurrected back to life.)
Revelation 20:13-14--"And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death." (Hell delivers up the dead, meaning a resurrection from the grave, and what happens to death & hell? They are thrown into the lake of fire, meaning total destruction.
Christendoms concept of hell is not a strength but a pagan teaching. God is love and tortures no one.

Answer 2

God doesn't forgive everyone, only repentant wrongdoers. Those who willfully sin will not be forgiven. Still he is a very kind and loving God and would not cause anyone to suffer in some fiery torment forever. In the Bible Hades or Sheol were simply the common grave and no one in the Bible was said to have gone to Hell (a place where they were eternally tortured.) Study the bible seriously, with someone who teaches directly from the Bible. You can consider such scriptures as Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, Psalms 146:4, Genesis 3:19.

Additional~
In the King James Version, the Greek word Hades is rendered "hell" in each of its ten occurrences in the Christian Greek Scriptures. The rendering at Luke 16:19-31 mentions torment, but the entire account is symbolic in meaning. The Hebrew word Sheol occurs 65 times in the Hebrew Scriptures and is rendered "hell," "grave," and "pit" in the King James Version.

Answer 3

People go to hell because they choose it. Hell is not some halloween party; it is a place where God is not; it is the only place in all reality where God is not present.

People who spend this life denying God are given a place in eternity where they don't have to every hear about Him.

Your idea of forgiveness is mistaken. Forgiveness is not about letting off the hook. As a society, we can forgive a mass murderer but are we to be so stupid as to let him or her back loose onto society to kill again? Certainly not.

A forgiven murderer is not the same thing as a repentent murderer.

God is about allowing human beings to be creatures of free choice. He has told us the meaning of ultimate reality; mainly Himself, he has offered us a way to repentance and forgiveness; Jesus Christ.

Everyone and anyone who doesn't want to live in reality with God are free to live in reality without God; the place called Hell.

Answer 4

God doesn't forgive everyone. In Proverbs 17:15 it reads

"He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, Both of them alike are an abomination to the LORD."

So God can't just forgive otherwise he would be an abomination to himself. The modern gospel has painted a picture of an "all-loving" God. And while he is loving he is also righteous, just and holy. By his nature he must punish sin which is hell for those who reject the Gospel. "...when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels, in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God, and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power"
2 Thessalonians 7-9.

If a human judge were to release a man convicted of rape and murder just because he felt like it, we would say that was a bad and corrupt judge. That would anger you. And God will punish the rapist and murderers. But he won't stop there. He will also punish theives, liars, adulterers. The Bible says "all liars will have their part in the lake of fire" (that's hell). He will punish sin wherever its found. That is all of us. We all deserve hell because we have violated God's Laws, the 10 Commandments.

That seems cruel to most except for one very important thing. God DOESN'T want anyone to go to hell. He made a way out through Jesus Christ. Christ took our punishment when he died on the cross and defeated death when he rose 3 days later. The Bible says that "while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." That's how much God loves you.

But its not a blanket forgiveness. Not everyone will experience that forgiveness. The Bible says there are two things you must do to be saved from hell. The first is to repent. Jesus said twice "unless you repent, you will perish". Paul wrote "God commands all men everywhere to repent, because he has appointed a day in which He will judge the world in righteousness". Repent means to turn from sin. Don't just confess, but confess and forsake your sin. Then you must put your trust in Jesus to save you. Trust that he took your punishment upon himself so that on that day you could go free. It requires that you humble yourself.

The Bible says the moment you do that you pass from death to life, from darkeness into light. Instead of God being far off, he'll be your closest friend. He'll seal you to his Holy Spirit and he will give you a new life with new desires. He offers you a reprieve and all you have to do is repent and trust in Christ.

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Answer 5

God forgives, when people ask for forgiveness and shows that they are TRULY sorry and repent (Stop doing wrong). If they commit sin, continually, the LORD knows that they're not truly sorry. The ones that would say, "I KNOW IT'S WRONG..I DID IT, AND I'LL DO IT AGAIN, IF I HAVE TOO. The ones that has no REMORSE.

If someone SLAPS you, leaving imprints of their hand in your face and saying that they're sorry, while SLAPPING you repeatedly...over and over again, would you believe that they were really sorry from the first time hitting you?

If they say that they're sorry and ask your forgiveness you have to forgive them, also, so that the LORD will forgive you when you ask for forgiveness for your own wrong doing.

You'll know that they were truly sorry if they stopped and never did it again.

People go to hell when they sin and DIE not being sorry for what they did, Dying with that sin being UN-confessed, and asking for forgiveness.

Answer 6

You must repent first and ask for forgiveness, which then will be granted to you, but if you keep on sinning, and going against the law of God, and disregarding God in your life, how can you expect to go to him, if your heart does not want to? By choosing sin you set yourself apart from heaven, in order to participate in the glory you must first repent, be sorry and sin no more. That is of course, if you believe, if you don't its your own desicion and then live accprdingly. That is what Nietsche said, if you believe that God is dead, stop whinninh and being afraid of the void and of the nothing after dead and start living accordingly: Living for your own, be selfish, be rotten, be the superhuman. Right?Well, but Blaaise Pascal in his wager says: That if you lived your life as if there was no God, it'd be better for you that there isn't, because if there is, you would have lost everything. But if you live your life as if God existed and wants you to, then if there is a God you win everything, and if ti doesn't you lost nothing since you had nothing in the first place, and won n its place a good led life that enobled you and heghtened you as human.

So, bottom line the decision is yours baby.

God forgives, but first we must ask for it. Nobody can get cured of an illness you don't know you have or you think you don't have.

take care, bye.

Answer 7

Christ said that the FEARFUL and UNBELIEVING will have thier
part in the Lake of Fire. Fear and unbelief come from GUILT and
SHAME. Because of the way they behave and treat others. That's how they end up in hell.
Buf if you've read the Word, you would know that at some point,
God will get those that failed out of hell. And they will be
"judged". And sometimes the judge lets one off.
But who knows when that will be. I think my spirit experienced
a hell-like place once, as our spirit travels while we sleep. I
was trying to move through fatty, red meat. And I had to fight with an ugly being. It was very unpleasant.

Answer 8

Maybe they never asked for forgiveness. Or maybe they were haughty enough to say they did not need God's forgiveness or even went as far as to say there was no hell.

Answer 9

no no no it rather is not any longer the way it works. The all-efficient, all-merciful God is barely allowed to forgive you in case you convey regret and have self belief HOW he forgave you. in case you do no longer do this then truthfully god could deliver you to spend all eternity in a lake of hearth because you're a sinner and god can no longer have sin in heaven. he's an all-merely and entirely holy God, in spite of everything. And btw, in case you have been thinking you may get a huge gamble to repent as quickly as your in hell, it rather is not any longer the way it works, the two. as quickly as you die, your risk is over. when you die it rather is sooo glaring that god is actual, so it is not likely making a call to repent out of your sins. you merely choose to get out of hell, you do no longer likely choose to be with god. so which you get eighty years supply or take and rather not greater to make your decision, and after that your destiny is sealed for ALL ETERNITY. No take backs! It makes suitable experience once you think of roughly it. I mean how else could an all-loving god do issues?

Answer 10

They die without asking God for forgiveness or they are insincere when they ask God for forgiveness. But, "...even though you be in Hell there too shall He be." People turn their backs on God. God does not turn His back on people."