Christians define as hell bound anyone who does not accept Jesus as Lord and Savior?

Nobody likes the idea of suffering. The normal human reaction to suffering is revulsion and a desire to make the pain cease. If we are at all empathetic, witnessing people or animals in pain, or suffering from illness, hunger or abuse, can be profoundly disturbing.

I’ve learned to ask others to refrain from describing violence they have witnessed, and I try to avoid images of violence on television or in movies. I’m not saying I’m more compassionate than most people, or that I want to plug my ears to reality. I just happen to have quite a vividly creative imagination, and a tendency to obsessive thoughts.

So, when I see something violent or see someone in pain, my mind will “see” and dwell on those images for days. That said, it is not surprising that I have trouble with the idea of Hell. God knows this.

He understands how vividly I can imagine the horrors of Hell. He knows how bad I feel about the idea of eternal suffering. And yet I can still trust Him and love Him.

To me, this is an amazing mystery. It makes me quite sure that God is real. Why?

Because even though I know what the Bible says about Hell, I still believe that God is loving. Only He could create that kind of faith and peace in my heart. I’m pretty sure I’m not alone in these feelings about Hell.

It seems to me that most Christians, if they think about Hell for long enough, will become disturbed. The fire that isn’t quenched. The worm that doesn’t die.

The nightmare that doesn’t end. How can these things exist in congruence with the love of God? Is there something we Christians are missing, or what?

Atheists will reply to that question in the affirmative, asserting that what we’re missing is a brain. The existence of Hell is one of the most commonly-used arguments for atheism, and no wonder: our human sensibilities are offended by the notion of eternal punishment. So, what is going on here?

God is Infinite, We are Finite The other day I was lamenting this very issue to my mother. Her answer to me was very wise. She said “Would you want to worship a God that you could totally understand?

If you could grasp everything about Him, wouldn’t He be just like you?” I think that is the first key to understanding this hell / love dilemma. God created this entire universe.

He encoded the DNA, molded the mountains, designed the nebulae, and gave monkeys their funny faces. A Being with a mind that creative, and so powerful that He can speak His thoughts into matter, is quite plausibly too complex for my 32-year-old brain to understand. I look forward to Heaven where (I hope) He will condescend to explain Himself to me.

Until then, if I’m honest, I really don’t have to know. The Bible is about communicating the essentials: I am sinful, and God has graciously provided Himself as a sacrifice to save me. I cannot question that kind of love.

God is the Father, We are The Children One of my favorite movies is La Vita e Bella, which is an Italian film about a Jewish father and his little boy who are captured and placed in a concentration camp during World War II. To keep his little child’s spirits up while in the camp, the father lies to him telling him that the whole thing is a game. Because the child believes in the game, he willingly hides, runs and obeys his father in ways that he wouldn’t if he was frightened by the reality of their situation.

The father protects his child by not giving him all the information. This seems to me a very good picture of what God does for us, His children. Like children, our trust and love are the basis of our relationship with Him, not “having all the information”.

In the end, when we are finally made to understand everything, it will be in a “safe” environment where our minds will not break under the pressure of reality. God is a Consuming Fire and Proximity Matters I’ve pointed out the infinite power of God and the love of God as explanations for how Hell and God’s love can co-exist. There is a verse in Hebrews 12:28-29 that brings out another, awe-inspiring aspect of Him that I think is a good though different sort of argument.

Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. One of the main descriptions we have of Hell involves fire. We also know that God is omnipresent – that is, His presence is everywhere.

Psalm 139:7-8, Ephesians 4:8-10 and 1 Peter 3:18-20, God’s presence has even been in Sheol, the place of the dead or the departed spirits – both good and bad. We know that Jesus was not, Himself, punished in Hell, but if Hell exists at all it must be sustained by God because “apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being” John 1:3.

When the first people, Adam and Eve, disobeyed God, it brought a curse upon them and all of creation. This brought great pain to God. Even then, he made a covering up of sins with the blood of animals to provide clothes of animal skins for them.

From that time until Jesus died on the cross, blood of animals served to cover sin for a time. God never intended for death, and He knew that those animals were innocent. The problem came because God is completely loving, but He is also completely just.

When innocent animals died as sacrifices, God put their innocence on the accounts of those who made the sacrifices. However, an animal's blood can never completely pay for sins. That is why Jesus came as both God and man.

When Jesus died, God poured out all of His wrath on Jesus for every sin past, present, and future for all of mankind. Jesus was very much grieved, not only from pain, but because He knew that people would still choose not to follow Him. His love for mankind is even stronger than we can comprehend.

However, He gave us the decision to love Him and follow Him and make Him our God. Anyone who does not want His love and forgiveness of sins is not bound to live eternally with Him.

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