Why would anyone in their right mind desire to serve any God who would create such a place as Hell?

Question

Hell is the cruelest idea I have ever heard of...

Answer 1

Bless you my friend I couldn't agree with you more.

Answer 2

Jewish theology actually agrees with you. THere is no such thing as hell in the way that christians use the word in traditional Jewish thought.

The Jewish "gehenim" (closest thing to hell) is a temporary place where souls go to be purified sufficiently to go to the more pleasant aspects of the afterlife (called "gan eden").

If a person is really evil, then he is not deserving of gehenim, and his soul is kind of caught in limbo, unable to go into "gan eden", and unworthy of gehenim. This is considered the ultimate punishment.

THus, gehenim is actually the greatest good that G-d could have made. In a world without Gehenim, anyone who has any blemish on his record would be in limbo, as he is not worthy of gan eden. THis affords the possibility to the 99.99% of people who are neither entirely good or entirely evil to enter gan eden.

It's all much more complicated than this (levels of gan eden, etc.) but this is the 5 minuite primer on Jewish philisophical thought on the afterlife.

Answer 3

I agree with you completely. Any supernatural being that would create a place of endless torment for creations that it deliberately created as imperfect can only be considered sick, sadistic, and evil. I believe it was Descartes who suggested that god was an evil genius for creating the universe in such a way that most of his creation was bound to fail and wind up in hell.

Of course, now that we understand that irrational thinking, primitive superstition, and religious dogma are ineffective tools in the modern era...we can say conclusively that there is no credible evidence to demonstrate the existence of a supernatural being of any kind, much less one that might be considered god.

Answer 4

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
It doesn't say anything about God creating or making Hell. In fact, I don't recall reading anywhere in the Scriptures that God says that HWhy would anyone in their right mind desire to serve any God who would create such a place as Hell?e created or made Hell.
And NAME ONE SO-CALLED DESPICABLE ACT THAT GOD COMMITTED.
Only the wicked would call God's chastisement of evil, despicable and that is because they despise God for chastising them.
ALL SCRIPTURE says that God created the HEAVENS(plural) and the heavens are described as being GOOD.
I serve God because I want His Goodness in this world and in the worlds to come.
I do not wish to bring any bad on myself and I serve God with hope that others won't be able to bring bad on me either.
God is GOOD NOT CRUEL.
I serve a GOOD GOD NOT A CRUEL GOD and am re-gaining that right mind that He gave me in the first place that I pushed to the side at one time and accepted the wrong mind.
That cruel god that YOU speak of is NOT GOD and NOT A GOD.
He is THE DESPICABLE ONE, The one that will always abandon you in your time of need.
The one that cajoles and tempts and persuades you from your RIGHT MIND into accepting and using that WRONG MIND.
He is the MAKER NOT CREATOR of that place that is called hell in which you speak.
So yeah; why WOULD ANYONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND want to serve a god that MAKES such a place as hell?
You are in my prayers.

Answer 5

There is no such thing as Hellfire. That is a false doctrine made up by man. The Hebrew word for Hell is "Sheol" and the Greek word is "Hades". Both Sheol and Hades used in the Bible means "the common grave of mankind".

Hellfire is not a Bible teaching. People have been taught a lie.

Romans 6:23 says: "The wages sin pays is death." Death itself is the punishment for death, there is no further punishment, no burning in hell, like people made up. (Genesis 3:19)

When a person dies, they cease to exist. They do not go to some other place (like a burning hell) and suffer, because the Bible shows that when a person dies they can't do anything, they don't know anything. (Ecclesiastes 9:10)

Acts 2:21 shows that when Jesus died, he went to Hades (Hell in the King James Version). It says: "he saw beforehand and spoke concerning the resurrection of the Christ, that neither was he forsaken in Ha'des nor did his flesh see corruption." If Hades/Hell was a burning place then how could Jesus flesh not become corrupted? And what's more is that why would Jesus, a righteous perfect person, God's Son, go to hell if it was a burning place of torment? (He was not forsaken in Hades because he was resurrected and his flesh did not rot because he was resurrected by the third day, before his flesh would decompose)

When Job was suffering physically and emotionally he prayed to go to hell (Sheol) so that he would not have to suffer. (Job 14:13). If hell was a place of torment, how would he find relief there? To Job, "hell" was simply the grave, where his suffering would end. Hell (or Sheol or Hades) in the Bible is the common grave of mankind where good people as well as bad ones go.

Plus of all those resurrected, as recorded in the Holy Scriptures, none of them mentioned any kind of afterlife during the time they were dead. If they went to heaven or hell, they surely would have told their stories. But none such is recorded.

1 John 4:8 says "God is love", he does not send people to hell to be tormented forever.

Answer 6

Questions like this one kept me from giving any credence to Christianity for most of my life. I can tell you what I have learned now that I have accepted His forgiveness and received the Holy Spirit: If you wait until you understand before you believe, you will wait for the rest of your life. It doesn't do any good to think of God abstractly and hypothetically. He is real and you will only find your answers when you seek them from Him. One thing to think about though, is that much more compassionate, loving and intelligent people than you or I are believers. That should at least give you incentive to wonder. Many believers are not 100% convinced of the classic definition of hell anyway. But if God is sovereign, we have to accept whatever reality is and not obscure the issue by imagining that we are in a position to determine ultimate truth based on our finite, fallible consciousness. I have found Him to be good beyond comprehension, and merciful beyond hope.

Answer 7

God did not create hell.......Man did........With the help of a few fallen angels. Ever hear of Satan or better known as Lucifer. Used to be Gods trusted angel, then he decided to overthrow God and take over heaven. So God deemed that Lucifer would walk the earth and that he would have power over it in the end. Hence raining down of fire and brimstone on earth and the seven plagues. So you wanna get really technical man is creating hell right now. God had nothing to do with it.

Answer 8

if Heaven is to be so beautiful then hell has to be very horrible.

for every laughter there has to be a tear..

just like a car battery..their has to be a negative post and a positive post

up must have down...good has to have equal
it all balances out.
what your mistake is trying to figure out what God mind is like and God is not human..He has not the same mind of man and does not think like mere human. God is Divine and we will never know what He is like or how He thinks until we leave this world.

Answer 9

Consider, God did not create Hell initially. It was NOT part of His grand plan. When we failed to trust in him, and put our trust in a liar, and then tried to deceive God about the whole thing, we wrecked it bigtime.

God did what he had to do. God cannot tolerate evil, and thus he sent His Son to die for us, to cleanse us, if we will let hiim change us. However, God also cannot deny free will, and thus He cannot and won't become evil himself by intervening if people choose to seperate themselves from Him. Though he gives his gifts on earth to everyone, those who serve Him or not, in the end, they will be revoked and the full ramifications of the choice those that did not serve Him will be made clear to them, and they will be cut off from the very source of Love and goodness forever.

Don't rail at God for creating Hell. WE made it!

Answer 10

Ah, but the cruelest tests are the ones we learn the most from.
Besides which it depends entriely on your perception of what or where hell is as to what it means to us.

Answer 11

Hell is a metaphore for the confused, hateful mind of the selfish ego. When one finally realizes that nothing matters and that this world is to experience, and we are all connected and are all one-- when they realize this and then focuses on the present moment (the now), then peace will come into your mind bringing you out of your self-inflicted state, that only exists to provide an opposite to heaven (a calm, loving, peaceful mind).