Why create us, then, with the foreknowledge granted by omniscience, that many, perhaps untold billions, will go to Hell? Isn’t that horrifically sadistic? Why not just let the evil ones die forever into oblivion and not go to heaven? Wouldn’t that be more merciful than an eternity of torment? What kind of Supreme Being would preside over a Hell? An infinitely-compassionate one? I think not!
Since all have rebelled against God and sinned the better question is why does God save anyone?
“For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. - Romans 1:18-20
If all are guilty and none without excuse why save any?
And would it be fair to give a Hitler or a Stalin or a Mao the delights of heaven and a relationship with God? Did none of their choices to do evil count against them? Would that be the act of a just God? If no, then you recognize the need for a fair judge at the end of time and are now, here, just questioning the fairness of God and saying you don’t trust him to do the job properly.
The answer to why he saves his people is, as always, love.
Since all have rebelled against God and sinned the better question is why does God save anyone?
“For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. - Romans 1:18-20
If all are guilty and none without excuse why save any?
And would it be fair to give a Hitler or a Stalin or a Mao the delights of heaven and a relationship with God? Did none of their choices to do evil count against them? Would that be the act of a just God? If no, then you recognize the need for a fair judge at the end of time and are now, here, just questioning the fairness of God and saying you don’t trust him to do the job properly.
The answer to why he saves his people is, as always, love.
Hell is a place of eternal separation from God, and people go there when they die because they chose to separate themselves from God while living on earth. God created us with the free will to make our own choices, and separating ourselves from God is one of the choices we are free to make. Our free will is a wonderful gift from God in that He does not force us to love Him or to follow Him. Without our free will, we would be nothing but puppets or robots, which does not please God, and certainly does nothing to better our lives.
While God desires that everyone would choose to love Him, some people will choose not to. These people will die in their sins and be separated from God forever in hell. Many would say that this is unfair, and that a loving God would never set up a system such as this; however, it is precisely God's love for us, and the fact that He is perfectly just, that tells us why hell exists, and why men and women will choose to go there. God loves us so much that He respects our freedom of choice. If we choose not to love Him, then why would He want to force us to live with Him eternally in heaven? Wouldn't living for eternity with someone we don't love be hell anyway? God wants to spare those people who don't love Him from having to live with Him and be under His rule for eternity.
God's perfect justice demands that there be a hell to punish the unrepentant and wicked among us.
What kind of a loving God would He be if the wicked were never punished? Why would He have sent His Son to die for our sins, if we could reject that redemption and not eventually pay the price? What incentive would we have to do good and love God if we knew we could reject His Son and choose to do evil all of our lives and never be punished? We would not want this lack of justice in the streets of our cities and towns, so why do we expect God to mete it out in the overall universe?
An infinitely compassionate, loving God sacrificed His own son so that human beings could escape His judgment. Men and women send themselves to hell; God does not put anyone there.