About Hell

Let's discuss about something that people don't like to talk about but yet it's worth having a discourse over it, so we have the right perspective about hell.

There are things we will never fully understand but yet I believe that there are things that God makes plainly clear to us.

So let's start to process a little...

What makes hell so bad is not God. It's precisely the opposite - His absence.

You may say, "Hell is on earth." This is only partially true because there is still a lot of good on earth. Thank God we get a probationary period on earth where we get to see a little bit of Heaven and a little bit of hell, and get to choose which one we want for eternity.

And some of us may think that ending our lives might be the best way to escape. God gave us life and asked us not to murder, this shows how serious He is about life. And so when we kill ourselves, we are throwing the life God gave us away. So suicide is not the way God prescribed.

In fact, God loves us so much and does not want any of us to go there (hell) and He gave us the Solution.

For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. (John 3:16 NKJV)

It's not God sending people to hell. It's the devil who snatches every sinner as his own possession.

No. People don't go to hell just because they don't believe in Jesus. People die and go to hell, first and foremost, because they are sinners and chooses to remain as sinners. People get confused why a loving God would send them to hell. But the truth is that God DID provide the solution, Jesus Christ.

Jesus proclaimed in gospel: “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me" (John 14:6 NKJV). Coming to the Father also would mean going into the presence of the Holy God, Heaven.

In summary..,
God is holy thus the place where God is, Heaven, is holy.

Conversely, the place where God is not present, hell, is unholy.

Everyone is a sinner and cannot attain righteousness by their own.

He is not unloving to send us to hell.

If indeed you believe God exist, He loves us so much He did not leave us clueless.

With suffering on earth, God is giving us a glimpse of heaven and hell on earth and is pointing us to the Solution. Suicide is not the way because it mocks the life that God gave in the first place.

He DID provide a solution because we can never be right before God no matter how we try.

God provided a Savior to take upon Him the punishments that we deserve for our sins so we, when we accept the solution and the work done my Jesus on the cross, we can be right again with God, repent and dwell where God is, Heaven.

And meanwhile, though life is difficult on earth, it can be filled with God's presence and peace during trials, joy, purpose, provision, protection etc.

I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. (John 10:10b NKJV)

This is the reason why Jesus came: You. You dwelling with God.