Going to Hell?

Question

If we love our children unconditionally--how can our love be greater than God's when we are only human?

What I am saying is how can God be our father when he is supposedly going to send us to Hell for not doing one of more of his commandments?

Also, I can tell my children many many many times not to do something, but if they still do it--I do not disown them and condem them to eternal fire and punishment. SO-how can my love for my children be greater than God's love for us-if God is greater than us? AND SO WHY do we think that God would do it to us?

Answer 1

If you understand the true meaning of Hell, then you will know that everyone that death takes, goes to Hell.

Definition: The word “hell” is found in many Bible translations. In the same verses other translations read “the grave,” “the world of the dead,” and so forth. Other Bibles simply transliterate the original-language words that are sometimes rendered “hell”; that is, they express them with the letters of our alphabet but leave the words untranslated. What are those words? The Hebrew she’ohl' and its Greek equivalent hai'des, which refer, not to an individual burial place, but to the common grave of dead mankind; also the Greek ge'en·na, which is used as a symbol of eternal destruction. However, both in Christendom and in many non-Christian religions it is taught that hell is a place inhabited by demons and where the wicked, after death, are punished (and some believe that this is with torment).
Does the Bible indicate whether the dead experience pain?

Eccl. 9:5, 10: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all .
Does the Bible indicate that the soul survives the death of the body?

Ezek. 18:4: “The soul* that is sinning—it itself will die.”

What sort of people go to the Bible hell?

Does the Bible say that the wicked go to hell?

Ps. 9:17, KJ: “The wicked shall be turned into hell,* and all the nations that forget God.” (*“Hell,” 9:18 in Dy; “death,” TEV; “the place of death,” Kx; “Sheol,” AS, RS, NE, JB, NW.)
Does the Bible also say that upright people go to hell?

Job 14:13, Dy: “[Job prayed:] Who will grant me this, that thou mayst protect me in hell,* and hide me till thy wrath pass, and appoint me a time when thou wilt remember me?” (God himself said that Job was “a man blameless and upright, fearing God and turning aside from bad.”—Job 1:8.) (*“The grave,” KJ; “the world of the dead,” TEV; “Sheol,” AS, RS, NE, JB, NW.)

Acts 2:25-27, KJ: “David speaketh concerning him [Jesus Christ], . . . Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell,* neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” (The fact that God did not “leave” Jesus in hell implies that Jesus was in hell, or Hades, at least for a time, does it not?)
Does anyone ever get out of the Bible hell?

Rev. 20:13, 14, KJ: “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.” (So the dead will be delivered from hell. Notice also that hell is not the same as the lake of fire but will be cast into the lake of fire.)

Is eternal torment of the wicked compatible with God’s personality? What would you think of a parent who held his child’s hand over a fire to punish the child for wrongdoing? “God is love.” (1 John 4:8) Would he do what no right-minded human parent would do? Certainly not! Simply put, the word Hell is translated from the Hebrew word Sheol, which means the grave, where everyone goes when they die.

Answer 2

Nice rant - I like it.

God doesn't send you to hell for breaking a commandment. You know this already.

Purely in the context of Christianity, since you didn't declare yourself, the key is being born again. Accepting Christ as savior and believing God raised him from the dead. That's the choice -- do or die.

Choose to not do the above and you are on the same level as a cow or horse or a plant in God's eyes -- it's a law. It's so mechanical that it has nothing to do with your love for your children.

God set up rules. They are simple ones. If you choose to focus on how you want it to be, then you are in your own boat ... floating along in the sea of your own standards of your own making! Not much more can be said.

Answer 3

Hell is NOT what the majority of religions teach that it is---God would NEVER burn his children in the fire for eternity. Your reasoning is sound and shows insight. Keep looking in the Bible and learning about the kind of God he really is. Then, find a Church that teaches that. You will find protection under God's direction.

Answer 4

God's love for you and everyone is so huge you can not even imagine it. God does not punish!!!! There is heaven, but there is no "hell" in the way you picture it. Hell is living on earth with so many crimes, suffering, wars, diseases, problems, etc. We all make it to heaven when we pass on, except for those who are evil spirited and bad people. They will just stay in limbo and will never, ever, see heaven. Your love for your children can never be greater than God's love. That is why He is God and powerful.

God bless.

Answer 5

God is NOT everyone's Father! He only adopts us when we turn from our sins and accept His Son, Jesus, as our Lord and Savior. When we do, God can take away our old spirit and He gives us a new one, the Holy Spirit, God, Himself! If we don't receive Jesus, we are rejecting God, so God gives us exactly what we want, eternal separation from God, which is hell. God does not send us there, we send ourselves.

Answer 6

God is in no way like that for one, secondly an eternal hellfire is a myth. God will destroy the wicked, it will be painful, but they will be utterly destroyed as dead.

If you read the Bible you will find countless times that God has forgiven his children and has allowed them access to the tree of life when Jesus comes the second time. Nebachudnezza for example was an abomination to the Lord many times, even after he realised that he was a powerful God.

When he finally repented and came to his senses, he glorified God, and his name will be written in the Lambs' book of life. God will do the same for us if we repent and turn from our wicked ways unto the only begotten of God; Jesus, who gave himself for us to save us.

No man will truely understand what Jesus went through to gain our redemption, even if we learned about it for eternity. That my friend is love.

God Bless!!

Answer 7

One ends up going to hell for rejecting Jesus as savior. Everyone including Christians sin. Those who are not following Jesus make a habit of sin. As a Christian, when we sin, we repent and ask for forgiveness.

God is a loving forgiving Father. He doesn't want anyone to perish (go to hell). read 2 Peter 3:9

God forgives us when we trip up and sin/ just like we forgive our children when they trip up and make mistakes. Hopefully our children will learn from their mistakes. Hopefully we will learn for ours.
Read and study the bible. Ask questions, check the answers against the Word of God.

He loves you and doesn't want you to go to hell. Our responsibility is to Love Him back and follow His Son Jesus who is the Way the Truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father but through Him.

Answer 8

"Going to hell" is a false teaching. Hell [ hades] according to Revelation 20;14 will be done away with, along with death. This agrees with Revelation 21;4.
Because they are mentioned together, to be done away with together, then 'hell' is simply mans grave. At the moment, we all DO eventually die, and we all DO end up in our grave. Whether it be a hole in the ground, or cremated [and dust spread] or buried at sea. So we all DO go to 'hell' [Hades]
On the bright side, we all [mostly] get a resurrection.
(Revelation 20:12-13) And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and scrolls were opened. But another scroll was opened; it is the scroll of life. And the dead were judged out of those things written in the scrolls according to their deeds. 13 And the sea gave up those dead in it, and death and Ha′des gave up those dead in them, and they were judged individually according to their deeds.

Answer 9

God prepared a place for Satan and his followers (demons) because they could not reside in Heaven. If you don't want any thing to do with God, then why should you go to Heaven to dwell with Him? You choose not to. So, there's a place for those who choose not to be with God. Hell is where Satan will be the god he always desired to be. God does not make Hell the nightmare of torture, pain, suffering, evil that it is. Satan hates Gods creation of humans and the ones he gets, he will enjoy making it a living hell there for them. Bondage with Satan as their god forever. People do it to themselves.

Answer 10

God will not condem us for our sins if we repent with the rightness of our hearts. God does love us more than our parents do and he is more forgiving than many people and parents are.