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Why do people say that God doesn’t send people to Hell, people send themselves?
Why do people say that God doesn’t send people to Hell, people send themselves? I haven’t seen any evidence that justifies a belief in the Christian God; but, if Hell is real, I wouldn’t choose to go there.
So, (A) God created Hell.
(B) God created the rules for who goes to Hell.
© Nothing happens that isn’t according to God’s will.
(D) God supposedly knows exactly what evidence it’ll take to convince me that He’s real, yet fails to provide this.
The ball is completely in God’s court; I would choose not to go to a place of eternal torture. When people say, “God doesn’t send people to Hell,” it seems like they haven’t really thought all this through very well. What do you think?
21 Answers
- Jabber wockLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
It's really a cop-out to avoid the fact that either the 'loving' god is doing the sending, or setting up the conditions that send them.
What's more (according to the beliefs anyway), as such a god is omniscient, he knew who is doomed to Hell before he created the entire species.
It's just not thought-through in any detail. You can certainly see the 'unsophisticated tribal belief' hallmark in the idea.
- grayureLv 71 decade ago
Because Hell is not a place, it's a state of mind arising from deliberate choices and a logically necessary consequence of those choices. You can choose to open yourself up to others and the world or not. If you choose not to, emotional and psychological damage will result because we need each other and we need God, i.e. an open system mentally.
God created conscious beings who are finite. An infinite conscious being would simply be God - it's logically impossible for more than one omniscient being to exist because then all mental events between them would be shared, which would make them identical. Also, a world where there are created conscious beings is better than one without them. The possibility of hell follows from those premises and is nothing to do with rules created by God, any more than God can make 2+2=5. The only argument i can think of against hell is if a lifeless Universe is better than one with life in it.
- ?Lv 61 decade ago
Many of your suppositions are incorrect. Hell was originally created for the fallen angels who rebelled against God. It was not created for humans. Unfortunately, Adam and Eve also rebelled as have many people since who choose to turn away from righteousness. Would you allow murderers and rapists to live with you for eternity? I think not. Similarly, God chooses to have those who have built a relationship with him through faith in Jesus Christ to spend eternity with him. Sinners could not stand to even be in heaven around God who is a holy, consuming fire. Therefore, there must be a place they can go after they die called hell. God does not want anyone to go there, which the Bible clearly says, but God did not make puppets and will not force anyone to go to heaven. YOU GET TO DECIDE!!
- 1 decade ago
See it this way: hell is eternal absence from God's presence. If you don't believe in God, you choose to be eternally absent from God's presence. Ergo, you're already in hell. Hell only matters if you're religious; for everybody else, God let's you do your thing without getting in the way.
Source(s): religion isn't simple - Facts MatterLv 71 decade ago
It's the ultimate in blame the victim. The same people will tell you that malaria happens because someone stole a piece of fruit.
- 1 decade ago
Do not be confused by the Craftiness of men.
God created hell, but hell might not be what the imaginations of men conclude. although, in many ways it could be worse.
- keezyLv 71 decade ago
A lot of things happen that aren't according to God's will - it's called he gave humankind free will
- Upasakha JasonLv 71 decade ago
They didn't think it through very well. It's like saying that the guy didn't rape the girl, she asked to be raped with what she was wearing. She did it to herself.
In effect, to be born is to be sentenced to hell, if we push modern Christian theology to its conclusion. And for what? For God being offended by what someone *else* did that no one alive today never even met.
- 1 decade ago
Read the scriptures, there is no such thing as hell, being in a sinful spiritual state and away from God is the so mentioned lake of fire.
- skepsisLv 71 decade ago
Because the divinely ordained rules clearly state that nothing can be God's fault.