Why Would a Loving God Send Someone to Hell?

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“If God is a loving God, why would He send anyone to hell? That sounds pretty UNloving to me!”

Have you ever heard someone ask this question? Perhaps you have had this thought pass through your own mind. It may seem like a complicated question, but when we open the Bible we can find some clear cut answers.

Let’s get the truth on this matter, and let’s start with the one who is behind this accusation. This whole question is a deception from Satan. As we read about him in the Bible we learn…

1. His fall – Satan is the REAL unloving one. Isaiah 14:12 –  How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!
   When Satan attempted to exalt himself above God, he was cast out of heaven. Ezekiel 28:15-16 From that moment on, he has been at enmity against God.
2. His folly. Satan is the father of lies. Every twist of truth comes from him.
   John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
   The question/accusation that God is unloving, comes from Satan, the “father of lies.” He cannot ever speak truth! His only ability is to lead us AWAY from life, which is only found in Christ.
3. His fate. He will be cast into the Lake of fire for all eternity.
   Revelation 20:10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
   Because he knows what his end will be, he desires to twist the truth so that people by the scores will miss out on a relationship with Christ and will follow him instead. He promises that he is a better away, but we read in I Peter 5:8
    Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
   His only desire for us is to lead us into his way of living, which leads to eternal death.

We know about the enemy, but let’s go deeper and answer the question about why a person would go to hell.

God’s character is love. He cannot act outside of Who He is. In His love, He gave us His Son to be our ransom to pay the price for our sin. Mark 10:45 I Peter, 1:18-19 If that is the case, then why do some people end up in hell?

A person goes to hell because they reject the free gift of salvation.

Imagine with me that I sacrificially gave my daughter a gift that was given out of great sacrifice, like my wedding band. You watch as I approach her and I hold the ring out to her, but then your eyebrows raise and your mouth drops as you watch her lift her hands in refusal. Let me ask a question – Does her refusal of my gift make ME any less loving? Of course not! So then, in a much greater way, when a person holds their hands up in refusal of God’s gift of His Son, Jesus Christ, GOD isn’t being unloving because of their denial of what they could have had. It’s of their own choosing. He loves, so He gave. Now it’s up to us to choose His gift.

^{John 3:18} He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

So the real question is, have you received the gift that our loving God has offered to you? As many as received Him, to them he gave the power to become the sons of God. John 1:12 It’s

It’s a simple as this –
Receive Christ ➡️ Receive Life.
Reject Christ ↘️Accept hell.

The choice is ours.

The blessing of Christ is a loving, fruitful life now and for all eternity!

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Did today’s post answer this “complicated” question in your mind and heart?