How can a loving God send anyone to Hell?
Surely you’ve heard the question. Your answer?
- Good question!
- That’s not the way it works
- If everybody winds up in Heaven what’s the point?
In his book on Heaven, Randy Alcorn offers a memorable response:
“He so much wants us not to go to Hell that he paid a horrible price on the cross so that we wouldn’t have to.”
John 3:16 (NIV)
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
I think people choose hell; or rather, they choose a path that would make Heaven into hell.
Like with unforgiveness…forgiving is not a box we have to check to get past St. Peter, it’s like having lungs…with unforgiveness in our hearts, Heaven would suffocate us.
Hmmm, interesting as always, Andrew: unforgiveness is spiritual asthma for the heavenly soul.