how can a loving god send people to hell? can god just do anything he wants?

How can a loving God send people to Hell?

Can God just do anything He wants?

Truth?SubjectiveRelativeAbsolute

Truth Either there is a God who created us

or there is not

Either the Bible is His revelation to usor it is not.

You either approach Him through Jesus Christor you do not

Relative and Subjective Truth?

Lies are intended to look and sound like truth

SubjectiveRelative

Truth

Doesn’t ask much, no response is

needed.

AbsoluteTruth

Requires a response

TruthJohn 14:6

“Jesus answered him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one goes to the

Father except through me.”

Jesus said: “I tell you the truth” 75 times!

Hell?

Lake of fire?

Hell?

Good People?

Is it relative?Absolute Standards?

Absolute Standards

We are sinnersRomans 3:23

“Because all people have sinned, they have fallen short

of God’s glory.”

Character of God

LoveJustHoly

Character of God, Just and HolyPsalm 9:16

“The Lord is known by the judgment He has carried out. The wicked person is trapped

by the work of his own hands.”

Character of God, Just and HolyPsalm 11:7

“The Lord is righteous. He loves a righteous

way of life.”

Character of God, Love2 Peter 3:9

“He doesn’t want to destroy anyone but wants all people to

have an opportunity to turn to Him and change the way they think and

act.”

Character of God, Love and JustPsalm 101:1

“I will sing about mercy and justice. O Lord, I will

make music to praise you.”

“God made you ‘little lower than angels’; sin has made you little better than the

devil.”Joseph Alleine

Character of GodLoving and Just

What is God to do?

Character of GodLoving and Just

Romans 5:8

“Christ died for us while we were still sinners. This

demonstrates God’s love for us.”

How can a loving God send people to Hell?

No He does not

God sends people to heavenRomans 10:9-13

Sin is hell begun;

Relationship with God is heaven anticipated!

Should we say people are sending themselves to hell?

Do people choose hell?

CS Lewis“I willingly believe that the damned are in one sense,

successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside. All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there

could be no hell.”

Heaven

Or

Hell

God offers heaven

People are refusing to follow God to heaven!

Moral RestraintHas value