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Interesting perpective in post 975, However the real question is not..How could a loving and JUST God send someone to hell? But..How could a loving and JUST God allow anyone into heaven? He answered the dilema some 2000 years ago on a cross.

...real question is not..How could a loving and JUST God send someone to hell? But..How could a loving and JUST God allow anyone into heaven? He answered the dilema some 2000 years ago on a cross.

I agree, but I have a problem with the concept of eternal hell. A man, for whatever reason, makes the wrong choice during his twenty or fifty or one hundred years on earth, and rejects God's mercy. After a trillion trillion trillion years in hell he is not permitted to choose again. That makes human life not a glorification of God, but a horribly cruel trap, from which few escape. No one has explained to me how this interpretation of the Bible can support the idea of a loving, just, or compassionate God, as is conveyed in the banquet analogy of ArGee. Would the host really want the permit the guests to stay in the jail forever? I don't doubt the authority of the Bible, but I have to think we are reading it wrong to come up with this.