If Hell is real, if God loves His enemies now, will he not always love them? Is God a changeable being?

Question

James 1:17
17Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. (KJV)

Answer 1

This question raises many issues. If God is all loving, why would He send people to hell? What is hell? Is it a place of eternal torment? Why create creatures knowing they will end up in an eternity of damnation? Is God helpless to save them all?
Often times, skeptics try and present an idea so that fairness and compassion necessitate that the Christian God cannot be real. For example, they sometimes say that a truly loving God would not create people He knew would go to eternal punishment. Of course this is only an opinion, but it is sometime raised nonetheless. As one skeptic put it, "If God truly loves us (this sacrificial love you talk about) then he would simply say 'I do not want the child to be born'. He is in control and has that ability doesn't he? As I would not wish any of my children who I love to go through a life of agonizing pain." The main problem with such an approach is that it is overly simplistic and based on emotionalism, not scripture. So, let's look at what the Word of God says.
First of all, when God made Adam, He made him good. Adam had the freedom to choose to obey or disobey God. Adam is the one who rebelled. God did not make him rebel and God is not responsible for Adam's rebellion. It would be like a parent having a child knowing that the child would eventually disobey the parent. Does this means that the parent is responsible for the child's rebellion when it occurs because the parent knew it would happen? Of course not. Furthermore, if the parent has more children, does he/she not know that some children may very well turn out good and others bad? Should the parents then not have children because some of them might turn out bad? The skeptic, if he is consistent, would urge parents not to have any children at all lest some of them turn out bad.
But the skeptic might say, "But God knows for a fact who will be bad and good. Why allow the people going to hell to be born in the first place?" But, if this is the case and if God arranged it that no "bad" people were born, then we would all go to hell. You see, Jesus is the only way to be forgiven of our sins. His sacrifice on the cross was necessary in order to make it possible for us to be saved because everyone, "good" and "bad" has sinned. If there were no "bad" people born, then there wouldn't be any "bad" people around who would have sent Jesus to the cross. If that never happened, then we wouldn't be saved from our sins because Jesus would never have been unjustly condemned and His sacrifice would never have happened.
Second, if someone says that it is wrong for God to allow someone to be born who will go to hell, then would he rather have God remove our freedom to rebel against Him so that no one can be blamed for sin? If the critic says he only want those people born who go to heaven, then how are they truly free and how would that fulfill the ultimate plan of God to sacrifice His Son for the redemption of mankind?
Third, God could have reasons for sending people to hell that we cannot understand.
Fourth, God is just and always does what is right. Therefore, sending people to hell is the right thing to do, especially when we understand that God is eternally holy and those who sin against God incur an infinite offense because the infinite God is the one who is offended.
Finally, the Bible simply tells us that people will go to hell. They go there because they are not covered by the sacrifice of Christ. Whether or not they are created or not does not effect the fact that sinners must be punished; otherwise, the holiness and righteousness of God mean nothing.

Answer 2

Well, then, I'll say it. God does not love his enemies. Common grace, yes, love, no way. He loves those he has chosen from before the foundations of the world. Big difference.

If you read the Bible with that mindset, all the killing in the Old Testament makes perfect sense. He is a KING to all, decreeing and doing exactly as He pleases, and He is a FATHER to His own, entering into a loving relationship with them when they deserve the same punishment as everyone else.

There, now you don't have a schizophrenic God that switches from love to wrath at the moment of death. Nor is God sad at placing the unrepentant sinner into Hell when He created it in the first place. He is glorified in His punishments and His salvation.

Answer 3

Answering from "A Course In Miracles", if anything can change it is false because the Truth of God cannot change. An enemy is a misperception of your brother, whom God created< as He did you. The only two perceptions that are true are , LOVE or a Cry for LOVE.

Answer 4

Well first of all hell was not made for us it was made for Satan and his followers, So we aren't meant to go there, but God gave us a free will to do what we want, But the bible says if we confess with our mouths that Jesus is lord believe he is the son of God,& turn from our wicked ways that we will be saved from Hell the eternal torment. God loves his enemies because he created them, It is our free will to be his enemy and to go to hell. God does not change his mind. He is the same yesterday today and forever.

Answer 5

What is "Hell?" Why don't you look up the meaning of the Greek or Hebrew words translated to hell.

The Hebrew is Strong's number 07585. sheh-ole’; or sheh-ole’; from 07592; Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates:— grave, hell, pit.

The Hebrew word means GRAVE. When we all die, we go to the grave.

The Greek has three word translated to hell. One of them is Strong's Numbers 1067. gheh’-en-nah; of Hebrew origin [01516 and 02011]; valley of (the son of) Hinnom; ge-henna (or Ge-Hinnom), a valley of Jerusalem, used (figuratively) as a name for the place (or state) of everlasting punishment:— hell.

Ge-henna is a dump outside of Jerusalem. They would put bodies there to be burned up.

Another word is Strong's Number 86. hades hah’-dace; from 1 (as negative particle) and 1492; properly, unseen, i.e. "Hades" or the place (state) of departed souls:— grave, hell.

This means the grave. Same as the Hebrew word.

The place and word is in 2 Peter 2:4. The Strong's Number 5020. tartaroo tar-tar-o’-o; from Tartaros (the deepest abyss of Hades); to incarcerate in eternal torment:— cast down to hell.

The verse is 2 Peter 2:4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;

Notice this is for restrains of Angelic Beings and NOT HUMANS.

So you see the verse in James 1:17 "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. "(KJV) is correct.

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Answer 6

You have confused the point. Jesus taught that man, was supposed to pray for him enemies. No God is not a chargeable being, but he is just. If you reject God, you will be held accountable for that choice. If you have no desire, to love, or worship God in this short life, you certainly would not want to do it for all eternity, so he simple gives you over to the one you have been serving, regretfully that one resides in hell, and so will all of his followers.

Answer 7

God loved the people in Hell so much that He sent His son to die on the cross, to go into Hell and take back the keys. He gives us all a chance not to go there if we only believe. He does not hate anyone, EVER! He loves all His creations it is people who insure their spots in Hell, not God.

Answer 8

I'm confused about your question. You just quoted a scripture saying that he is unchanging, so isn't that the answer you are looking for? I think God can love everyone, but it is a tough love. It's like punishing your children for bad behavior. God will do the same.

Answer 9

You have asked two questions...
First
"if God loves His enemies now, will he not always love them?"
God loves all, but he doesn't always like our actions, our sins. God will never stop loving us or his enemies, He is our Heavenly Father. Unlike our earthly fathers his love is unconditional, the same applies to his enemies. Sadly, we do not love unconditionally.

Second...
God is unchanging,
Mal. 3:6
For I am the LORD, I change not;......
He is the same God of yesterday, today and tomorow.

Answer 10

never ask a question about god.. because the only answer you will get is

"god can do anything"

so just don't waist your time.

i would like to ask him

" if your so offended by me not being sure if you exist, why don't you just save everyone the bother and just come out with it?? just tell he that you created me and that will be the end of it"

its stupid, its like someone giving there child away, the child being adopted, not told they were adopted. then when they are adults there real parent being angry because they should have just known that they were there real parents.

i mean come on!! the funny thing is i don't even deny the possibility of "A" god.. i just don't believe any of the religions or there gods or how they see god or how the describe him. agnostic i suppose. i think asking us to know god is like asking a fish in Scotland to understand how Newyork works. in fact its even more stupid,

haha look how many thumbs down im getting.. brilliant.