Christians: how can you believe in an all loving God and at the same time believe in hell?

Answer 1

How can you believe in an all just God and not believe in Hell?
God is both - perfectly just, and perfectly loving.
He bore the punishment you deserve in His own body when He died on a cross for your sins in the Person of Jesus Christ, so you could be freely forgiven and not have to go to Hell.
If you ignore His offer of mercy, then you will get exactly what you deserve - and that is Hell.

Read about the mercy God showed this man:
http://www.near-death.com/storm.html

Answer 2

Easy.... Because God is Holy and just means that he can't just ignore sins or those that reject and hate him. He does want a loving relationship with us but just thing about the Hitlers, Stalins, Mao, rapists, murderers, drug dealers, pornographers etc.... they have taken evil to heart and are unfit for heaven.

Then you have the proud and the arrogant that outright rejected God's existence, not to mention God's love and the sacrifice of his son, like the Richard Dawkins, Bertrand Russels and that group.

That leaves the indifferent.... if they don't care about God's love and God's one opportunity to get into heaven then God is Holy and cannot just ignore the sins... if they aren't interested in accepting forgiveness it is after all their choice.

The only path that is left open is those that have accepted God's gift of the payment for their sins through the blood of Jesus! It is called the narrow path and is often a lot harder than the wide and easy road. Just look at the show Survivor I watched about 10 minutes of it at the beginning and the Christian Radio host was the only one that wouldn't bow down to the idol... what is that 1 in 20 or so... Yeah for her!! The other 19 chose to bow to an idol.... it was their choice too... so is heaven and hell, God's love is there for everyone but as Paul wrote it is up to us to endure to the end.... a winner never quits the race until it is over!

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May you find the good road!
Todd

Answer 3

It is man who makes the decision to go to or not go to hell.

Man has made up his own mind since the beginning.

Hell was created because men fell away from God and because of sin, could not enter the kingdom of God.

So the decision has been and still is today that of a man whether he wants to believe God, be forgiven of his sins, and live forever in paradise or to believe the devil and continue to live in sin and at death have his soul cast into the fires of hell.

My God loved me so much he sent his Son to die for me, so I won't have to.

For God so loved the world that he sent his only begotten son so that whoever believed in him should not perish, but should have eternal life.

Answer 4

This is the age old question. God is Justice. We deserve hell. Although God did not make hell for human habitation, when we sin we side with satan who is destined for hell. We can only get to heaven by actively siding with God through Jesus' sacrifice for us on the cross. We can stand before God's throne only with Jesus at our side. Yes hell is real and God does love us. However He will not allow sin into heaven. So in His all loving way, he created a way for us to face Him. Through Jesus. That's it. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

God is Love, this is true. He proved His love for us by giving us His only begotten Son to die for our sins. Jesus proved His love for us by actually coming down from heaven to become a Man so that He could die for our sins.

However, God is also a HOLY GOD. A HOLY GOD hates sin. Sin must be punished. He is also a JUST GOD....how can He be just & fair if He doesn't punish sin?

But because He is a God of Love & Grace, He provided us a way out from being punished...Jesus died for us while we were yet sinners (Romans 5:8 refers), so that we need not "perish but have everlasting life."

BUT THE CHOICE IS YOURS...to accept this gift from God and go to heaven, OR reject it & end up in hell!

"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 6:23)

Answer 6

First of all, Hell was not created for us human beings, but the devil and his angels. But for those who forget that GOD is Holy, and Righteous, and Just, then the same fate as satan will befall those who ignore that a loving God still demands holiness from those whom He created. The choice of whether you go to heaven or hell is yours not God's. People decide their own fate, God gave his only begotten Son so that whosoever put their trust in Him should not perish but have everlasting Life. So, the choice is a simply one, choose God, choose life, choose not God, choose death.

Answer 7

amazing questions and if it weren't for the illogical and un-scriptural nonsense that Christians are brainwashed with, they might definitely study their ideals and ask the comparable suited questions. the actuality is the be attentive to God neither helps the thought of "guy's loose will" nor the thought of eternal torture in some pagan conceived hellhole. the actuality of the gospel (sturdy information) is that Jesus became into sent to be the savior of the international, He became into crucified as a sin offering for the atonement for our sins, and became into resurrected to illustrate God's capability over loss of life. Jesus' resurrection became into the "first end result" and all people who've died, and at the instant are ineffective (no longer residing someplace else) would be resurrected besides at Christ's return. In judgement the international will learn righteousness and all issues would be reconciled to God and he would be all-in-all, each knee will bow and each tongue will acclaim Jesus as Lord. God's judgment IS an act of His love, only as a father's self-discipline is an act of affection in the direction of his infants. self-discipline, chastisement...those issues are for correction, redemption, purification. God does love the entire international and His plan won't fail. Jesus did no longer fail. He got here to BE the savior of the international and he's.

Answer 8

Because Hell was created for satan and his demons which were cast out of heaven.

What does the existence of Hell have to do with the God's love?

I think the deeper question you are getting at is how could a loving God damn people to hell for eternity, and you've probably also wondered how a loving God could allow all the disease, death, and violence here on His earth.

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God's word clearly states that He created a perfect world and enjoyed fellowship with His most precious creation, humankind.

It was all good and it would have remained that way except for the fact that Adam and Eve decided to reject the grace of God and pursue their own selfish desires which is sin. Sin is unacceptable to a perfect, Holy God. The penalty for sin is spiritual death.

God was still protecting them when He banished them from the garden before they could eat from the tree of life because then they would have lived physically forever but spiritually dead and separated from Holy God.

The fall of mankind brought on the fall of creation so that all of creation is under the curse of sin. Sin is why we have disease, and violence, and death.

So, our Loving God is also a just God that will not compromise His character to make concessions for unholiness.

If any human finds himself in Hell then it will be completely the choice of that human. God does not want any of us to go to hell because hell was designed for satan and his followers.

Christ said that we are either with Him or against Him so if we reject Holy God then we align ourselves with satan.

God has promised in His word that every one will have the opportunity to trust in God and he uses His willing children to spread the message of hope through Jesus Christ.

Answer 9

God is all powerful and all knowing, but He is not all loving.

Psa 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.

Psa 11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

The "all loving god" is a modern day idol.

Those that sin agaisnt God DESERVE hell, myself included.

But God, in His love, has provided a sacrifice for us.

Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Yes, God is love, but God is not ONLY love.

Answer 10

Cause Hell was made for the devil and his angels, not man
but because of sin man fell and without redemption sin goes to hell.......

and if one refuses redemption through Christ Him being HOLY , and righteous cannot allow sin into a perfect and Holy heaven..

for it is written a little leaven , leaveneth the whole lump
so a little sin would corrupt heaven just like a little sin corrupted earth

and NO SIN will enter in....and going to hell is a choice one can either
A.follow Christ ( GOD ) blessing....
or
B. Themselves , sin , cursings

only way to heaven is Christ Jesus
only way to hell is ones.....self