God sends people to Hell

[ManBearPig]

This is one of my pet peeves, so I thought I'd make a topic about it. It's quite common on these forums that a Christian will say

God doesn't send people to Hell. People send themselves!

Not only is this completely nonsensical (would anyone ever say thieves "send themselves" to prison?), but also unbiblical, since the Bible unequivocally declares God to be a Judge, regularly "damning" people and "casting" them into pits and whatnot.

So does God send people to Hell? If so, why do so many Christians refuse to admit it?

[joer]

Thanks for the link Jester. I started listening to teh one on "Who is Jesus". I continue later when I have more Time.

Thanks again. yes I miss Joe too. I liked his posts. Peace Jester...Greatest I am.

[Jester]

Satan or bad ideas were cast out of Heaven once already. God would not likely want us in Heaven if we still "bring pain" with us. Our time on earth is where we are purged of negative attitude.

Agreed. This makes sense so far as I understand the issue.

It is likely that at that point all souls would obviously choose heaven over a non-existing hell.
Could this be why the notion of hell was included in religion, to keep the illusion that we still had choice after death?

I personally believe that there are some that will choose Hell. I believe that there is ample evidence that human beings are capable of deeply self-destructive choices. As such, making this kind of decision would be a very real danger.[/quote]I can't see anyone jumping into fire unless they have a death wish. On the off chance that souls can be tired of life, I think that at that point God would do the right thing and outright destroy the soul. Compassion of God.[/quote]I don’t really picture the whole thing as a lake of fire that you have do decide to jump into. My theology is that God basically says “you can live with me, but you’ll have to give up your obsession with (money/sex/popularity/whatever).” In my opinion, some people wouldn’t be able to put those things down.
You do make a good point with the “why would God allow someone to keep living in that condition.” I don’t have a straight answer for that one. My personal guess is that he has some way of eventually turning them around (getting them to the point that they realize that this course is self-destructive).

It is possible that all negativity disappears when the soul joining with the Godhead.
Understanding of anything and everything may automatically erase any negativity left in the soul. This would create my Perfect Heaven and destroy the necessity of Hell.

As an asside, how goes your thesis. Any roadblocks yet.

That’s definitely a possibility. I suppose we won’t know for certain until we experience it.
And nothing has left me feeling stopped dead in my tracks just now, though I consider the eventual occurrence of the feeling to be a given part of the learning process.