Thank you. You drive right into one of the things in the back of my mind when I discuss this stuff. I didn’t become a Christian until I was 29. I know how I thought before I became a Christian. That person deserved the justice of a just God. That justice is the Ecclesiastes life: Eat and drink and enjoy the fruits of your labor as a NATURAL MAN, not unlike an animal, and then, though man was made for an eternal relationship with God, you, as one who is lost, is denied that opportunity. And that is, in fact justice. There is no requirement to suffer horribly for all eternity. Though even that statement contradicts my perception of eternity regarding time and its passage.
People assume everyone wants to be obedient to God if they truly understood they would go the hell. Consequently we try to convince them of the fate and hope they will “see the light”.
But what if the situation is really reversed; that everyone really doesn’t care about being obedient to God regardless of the consequences? If this last scenario is true, then God is on a rescue mission to save some of us from the fate that we purposely want for ourselves. We see the fruit and just don’t care if we eat it or not.