Why has god let Satan run around free on earth for 6000 years while throwing millions of humans into hell?

Love is the power to grant freedom without desiring to limit or inhibit its exercise. It is the power to give freedom without any will to take it back. And it is only Omnipotence that can refrain absolutely from trespassing upon freedom.

Only God can give and not take back...He suffers within Himself the entire consequence of allowing man absolute freedom. That is His love. Only absolute love could grant unhindered freedom, and only omnipotence can endure the operation of that freedom.

A loving being that ignored evil or that treated bad acts and good acts equally would not be good. Hence, if God is good, then God is also just - he must treat evil as evil. So, if any creatures merited the existence of hell, then God could remain essentially good and loving by giving them justice, even if that means sending some creatures to hell.

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. 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? For what it's worth ... A misconception about hell is that it is a place of physical torment and torture.

Rather, most Christians have understood these descriptions to capture symbolically that hell is final and utter separation from God's saving grace. Similarly, thinking of heaven as a place of hedonistic pleasures is wrongheaded as well. In fact, those who choose hell would not enjoy the pleasures of heaven since those pleasures essentially flow from a right relationship with God.

There's no such thing as hell in Judaism and Christianity. Seriously. When you read the Bible in original languages of Hebrew and Aramaic the words that got translated into "hell" are: Sheol (which is like a waiting room for souls until judgement day, both good and bad souls ... it's not a punishment).

According to Revelation when Jesus returns on judgement day he will judge the living and the dead (those in Sheol). It never says he can't let in good people who are non-believers ... it just says he will be the judge. The other word is Gehenna which is an actual place near Jerusalem where where apostate Israelites sacrificed their children by fire.

It became a refuse heap and burned for a VERY long time. It was also used as a punishment for criminals, they would get thrown into it. Hence the "unquenchable fires of Gehnna" which later became the unquenchable fires of "hell".

Jesus was speaking in parables using language the people were familiar with. He was saying that commiting mortal sin would make you a cadidate for that punishment, not an eternal punishment in "hell". When it got translated into Greek they used "Hades" which is closer (but not the same) as what people think hell is ... but when it was translated to the romantic laguages is where hell started to appear.

Most of what poeple know of "hell" comes from a book written in the fourteenth-century by Dante Alighieri. God would never create something like hell. The church would (they like control) ... but not God.

You either get to chill with God in heaven ... or you don't get into the party ... there's no hell.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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