If god wants everybody to be happy why does he allow hell to exist?

Question

God is ALL-POWERFUL right? Why did he even create hell or satan? I know satan was originally and angel and he left and started hell and all that but why did god let him? God is clearly not above smiting people/places. Why not just get rid of hell? The alternative was that he needed leverage over humanity to get them to believe him. Prove me wrong

Answer 1

You're clinging to the christan point of view like it was the only one that was credible. To Buddhists and Hindus we are already in hell. Material existence is hell, and suffering. There is no place of fire and brinstone underground. Christans operate on the FEAR of god. Kinda hard to do that if there's no hell or devil. Mankind doesn't need supernatural inspiration to commit evil, we're pretty good at that on our own. It's pretty obvious to anyone with a clear mind that an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent being would not create a being or place of manifest evil, unless it/he/she was evil.

Answer 2

This is a common misconception.

We learn from the websters dictionary that hell means 'Sheol' in hebrew and 'Hades' in Greek. these words are used often throughout the Bible. Pslams 16:10 states, "You will not leave my soul in Sheol, you will not allow the loyal one to see the pit." In the KJV, amongst other Bibles, the word Sheol and Hades is often replaced with hell. We also see that Sheol and Hades means the same thing when we read Acts 2:31. So we know this does exist in the Bible.

Now...

When Job, who was suffering so mucn pain, had actually asked to go to Sheol. Job 14:13: O that in She′ol you would conceal me, That you would keep me secret until your anger turns back, That you would set a time limit for me and remember me!

Do you really think that someone who would be suffering so much already would want to go to a place where he would want to suffer more in a fiery torment? Of course not. Feeling the pain he was feeling, he wanted to rid of it, which resulted in him asking for death. How do we know he was asking for death?

Ecclesiates 9:5 "For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten."

Ecclesiastes 9:10 then reads: All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She′ol, the place to which you are going.

Here it is written that the dead aren't conscience of anything, that they can't do anything when they are in Sheol - when they're dead.

Also, 1 John 4:8 brings out that God is the God of Love. He would have to see his people being tortured in a place of torment. For instance, the Isrealites had turned their back on Jehovah God and began practicing idolarty. They began scrificing sons and daughters by throwing them into fire. Jeremiah 7:31 says, "And they have built the high places of To′pheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hin′nom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart."

It shows how God felt about this.

Answer 3

if God got rid of hell where will all the non-believers go? Heaven is kind of like present for those that were good on earth and followed God's will. God wanted to give humans free will. If we choose not beleive in him then we choose to go to hell. If god created hell to make us believe in him why didnt he not just give us no free- will? We choose not to be happy. Those who dont believ in Him are not happy.

Answer 4

If that replaced into the case, does no longer be extra convenient for him thoroughly smash mankind and make a sparkling set of people, extremely than terrorizing and inflicting suffering to human beings? Why waste time, only wipe em' out. yet he did no longer do this and for a stable reason. 2 Peter 3:9

Answer 5

For one; there is no proof of anything. Second, he did create free will. Everyone chooses the road they want to go down, not God. What's the point of creating something, when you tell them every little thing to do? Let them LEARN. That's what we are all here for in my opinion; to better ourselves, and each other; beause we all have the potential to be good people. Hell is merely a scare tactic to me.

Answer 6

Hell does not exist. When the Bible talks of She ohl and Hades it is referring symbolicaly to the Common Grave of Mankind. If everyone of the good prophets, leaders, evil kings of the OT went to She ohl, then one must logically deduce that She ohl was the grave. God told us clearly Ashes to Ashes Dust to Dust. When the NT talks about pits and burning etc, it is symbolic again. God is Love, and the ultimate price he set for sin is in fact Death itself. Once you die, you're paid up. You 'sleep' and await resurrection like Lazarus did, and the countless of others that Jesus brought back to life.

Answer 7

God desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. But he's not going to compromise his judicial nature, nor man's free will in the process, which would be contrary to his intended desire.

As for the concept of hell forcing people believe, you yourself appear to be a counter-example, disproving your own point.

Answer 8

Hell was created for the devil and his followers (demons). Not for us. God gave his son to die for our sins but also gave us free will to choose. Those who choose to live for God, will find life everlasting in heaven. Those who reject him, will perish in everlasting torment in hell.

Answer 9

God is evil. Satan is good. Not that either exists.

Answer 10

okay hell is for the sinners who don't believe that God sent his only son to die for us and that his son, Jesus rose from the dead after he was crucified. heaven is for the believers in him Satan went away from greatness in heaven and since he wanted to take over he got to take over somthin , hell . bu stay true to God and believe that God sent his only son , Jesus to die for us and he was crucified and on the third day he rose again and you will be saved. read ACTS 16:31