[Discussion] Why did God create Hell?

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Yep, even for most Christians, the only way to heaven is to accept Jesus since no man can enter heaven with sin, and accepting him is the only way around that.

And that's what bothers me. I mean because of that/ or according to this logic Osama BinLaden goes to heaven at some point. While I will remain down there because I either didn't believe in God or lived the wrong Religion all this time.

Christians are as wicked when it comes to this. Agree. It's either you're Christian or you are nothing :|
 

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According to the Holy Bible, God created Hell for the Devil and his angels, and for Sinners and those who are not saved. But why would a loving God do this? Why does He want His own creations to suffer for eternity in Hell? If He exists. I've done plenty of research on multiple religions. Each religion, more or less, seems to believe in a Hell or multiple Narakas. Why would such divine beings create such an agonizing place to be?

Why create Hell for people to suffer in for eternity? (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) or a near eternity (Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism)?

Is this Hell a true place that God created for us sinners to go to when we die? Is this Hell the Earth itself? Or is this a tool used since ancient times to control mankind out of fear?

because religions are a joke and and people worshipping religion an even bigger joke
 

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Then why doesn't God get sent to Hell? He does most of the genocides.

Did you even think before typing this? Common understanding of what a God is is that he is a being that created everything. So, naturally, everything belongs to him, so he can do as he pleases with the creation with you nor anyone else having any right to try and argue how he should be running things. But I'm guessing by genocide you're saying this as in why does he kill people via natural disasters or why does he let murders kill their victims?
 

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Really? Then those Christians trying to get me to convert lied?!

Seriously, I'm confused though, can you explain it to me?

It's about Christ's Grace. It's a predetermined affair. After the Christian accepts it in his life (it comes to him automatically), he has to go through five steps to be amongst Christ's men.
 

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According to the Holy Bible, God created Hell for the Devil and his angels, and for Sinners and those who are not saved. But why would a loving God do this? Why does He want His own creations to suffer for eternity in Hell? If He exists. I've done plenty of research on multiple religions. Each religion, more or less, seems to believe in a Hell or multiple Narakas. Why would such divine beings create such an agonizing place to be?

Hardly. The Bible is strikingly silent on the issue of angels and Devil is mentioned only in a few places. As for hell itself, it was only ever referenced as a payment for one's sins. Scriptures are quite ambiguous in what exactly the nature of hell and the devil are so you'd be better off not resting your case as a solid fact especially with wild disagreement among different religions and even those who follow the same religion. Contrary to what you say, religions aren't at all unanimous in terms of what hell is and "how to get there".

Why create Hell for people to suffer in for eternity? (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) or a near eternity (Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism)?

Is this Hell a true place that God created for us sinners to go to when we die? Is this Hell the Earth itself? Or is this a tool used since ancient times to control mankind out of fear?

At the core of your question lies a very skewed perspective on hell. In my view hell isn't at all "a fiery place where the sinners will burn in a lake of fire" like one would think from Revalation. Instead, I take the view that both heaven and hell are different states, rather than actual locations. While heaven is bliss because one is close to God, hell is agonizing because one is far from God, fallen out of his grace. So, to answer your question from my perspective.

Why did God create hell? He didn't, hell and heaven are logically necessary consequences of God's coexistence with us.
Why does God send people to hell? He doesn't, sinners willingly reject the grace of God and submit themselves to the agony on their own choosing.
Why does an all-loving God let that happen? Because, in order to stop a sinner from sinning He'd have to terminate his freedom, but this would terminate God's integrity which is logically impossible since God is impecable.
 

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In the kindest way and not to sound mean, rude, and boastful or anything you are supposed to read and study the King James Holy Bible thoroughly and not just read one line scriptures. If you do that then you would already have your answer and wouldn't need to ask that question here. The Bible is not to be read like a book, but studied. And it doesn't hurt to ask someone for help if something is confusing. Sadly, however many people give false or twisted answer so I can see why it may be difficult for people to believe some things in the Bible. Sometimes your answer comes just a few verses after the ones you've already read, but most people stop reading a bit short and if they continued more then the answer would be in plain sight otherwise.

*If you want you can read further or just move on. You don't have to read on if you don't desire it*

*Now I don't know everything and I honestly just want to share and teach what I know to those who may want to hear it. If anyone wants to judge me and call me names or whatever then so be it. A stable man worries not of the fly buzzing, while the unstable man foils in stress to crush it. Just a little quote i created myself, to show that I'm not worried about what people may think of me because it just doesn't matter.*

God is a very loving being and wants all of his creation to go to heaven and be at peace, but the Bible shows that God also has a wrath. God more than anything absolutely hates sin. He's hated sin since the beginning when he created us and when Lucifer(Satan) committed sin by fighting against God and trying to rule over God and heaven. God has a wrath and those who commit sin by not obeying his word and sinning and doing wicked things will be punished. He has shown this many times throughout the Bible. God wasn't always so forgiving for sin, but it's through Jesus that he can forgive us now and cleanse us of sin because it's through Jesus that he understands that as human beings we know both good and evil that wickedness will always try to consume us from doing good and he can forgive us now for it. However, some people don't want to be forgiven and love wickedness and sin more than God and the grace he is offering. Those who continue in their sin after death has to face God's wrath if they don't seek his grace and salvation properly. But it's not God that sends us to Hell it's we ourselves that choose that place for taking the grace that he offers to us freely.

That is why God created Hell. For those who do sin willingly and do not repent and change they have to face the choice they made willingly and for eternity. Sin feels good sometimes and we all can testify to that, whether it be ***, greed, malice, or our own desires. Sin and wicked things of darkness are supposed to feel good in order to make it hard to stop and easy to give in, but it doesn't make them right. God gives us free will, however; allowing us to choose if we want to love and obey him or live out our own lives how we desire it. But in the end everything has a consequence as we should all know.

Lol i sound like a preacher, but just wanted to help clarify things. A lot of religions and places speak nonsense and twist things making people not want to believe in anything and think that all religions speak the same crap. But what if told you that the word "religion" is a twisted word and concept to me and that people run away from because of how other people have corrupted it. I don't really call my faith and obedience to God my religion because it is much more than something that simple. It's my whole life, being, and reality and is what made me into the loving person I am today, so I actually thank God and my family for showing me the right path. Not all religions or whatever you want to call them are always right, but doesn't mean that all of them are wrong. Their is always one that speaks truth and good teaching even if you have to search for it like a needle in a haystack. So those who are searching, don't give up!

Have a nice day everyone and Happy Thanksgiving!
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In order to understand or accept hell u should accept God first- the reason that he created mankind and devil
God IS all loving but we have enemies too
He is our real friend and kinder to us than anyone else and in order to save us from our enemies and show us the right way of living and to find out his real servants he sent some rules to guide us which we call religion
But our enemies don't want us to follow God (it can be devil or our innerself(our innerself is sometimes our enemy becuz we want sth which is not good for us))
Sinners are the ones who "unfollow" those rules and follow things or ppl which are against them
and hell is the place that they chose themselves
God has warned us about it and we are the ones who choose to follow God or not
So God doesn't send us
We choose it ourselves by unfollowing God
 

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At the core of your question lies a very skewed perspective on hell. In my view hell isn't at all "a fiery place where the sinners will burn in a lake of fire" like one would think from Revalation. Instead, I take the view that both heaven and hell are different states, rather than actual locations. While heaven is bliss because one is close to God, hell is agonizing because one is far from God, fallen out of his grace. So, to answer your question from my perspective.

Why did God create hell? He didn't, hell and heaven are logically necessary consequences of God's coexistence with us.
Why does God send people to hell? He doesn't, sinners willingly reject the grace of God and submit themselves to the agony on their own choosing.
Why does an all-loving God let that happen? Because, in order to stop a sinner from sinning He'd have to terminate his freedom, but this would terminate God's integrity which is logically impossible since God is impecable.

You have a interesting way of looking at it and I also kinda look at heaven and hell representing our connection or separation from God. And you're right, sinners reject God's grace and submit themselves to hell's agony. Because of God 's grace he wants us all to be at peace after this life, but he also doesn't tolerate sin. He gives us free will to choose our final destination whether it be heaven or hell, because like you said he can easily take away our freedom/free-will to stop us from sinning but that will destroy his integrity.

You voice your opinions well, I like that.
Have a nice day!
 

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Hell is for the Devil, Humans choose to go there. If you had a child and they decided to start doing drugs, would it be your fault if they ended up in jail? Sin is a seed that eventually breeds death for the sinner and things around him, so sin has no place in heaven and he who harbours sin on earth would do the same In heaven .
 

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You have a interesting way of looking at it and I also kinda look at heaven and hell representing our connection or separation from God. And you're right, sinners reject God's grace and submit themselves to hell's agony. Because of God 's grace he wants us all to be at peace after this life, but he also doesn't tolerate sin. He gives us free will to choose our final destination whether it be heaven or hell, because like you said he can easily take away our freedom/free-will to stop us from sinning but that will destroy his integrity.

You voice your opinions well, I like that.
Have a nice day!

Honestly, this whole thread is merely one possible objection to the coherence of God, which is a subject I have pursued to an extent in my newest thread so if you'd like to check out a more solid way to defend rather than going one objection by one (very impractical btw). Here's the thread, it's a bit long but just reading the first segment (Evaluating Mystery) will do:



Good to see a fellow Christian here. God bless. :)
 

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Did you even think before typing this? Common understanding of what a God is is that he is a being that created everything. So, naturally, everything belongs to him, so he can do as he pleases with the creation with you nor anyone else having any right to try and argue how he should be running things. But I'm guessing by genocide you're saying this as in why does he kill people via natural disasters or why does he let murders kill their victims?

It's a good thing that when we die, we'll become Gods ourselves to create our own worlds. I don't want to bow to such an evil God.
 

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Hell is for the Devil, Humans choose to go there. If you had a child and they decided to start doing drugs, would it be your fault if they ended up in jail? Sin is a seed that eventually breeds death for the sinner and things around him, so sin has no place in heaven and he who harbours sin on earth would do the same In heaven .

Doing drugs isn't even bad.
 

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You have a interesting way of looking at it and I also kinda look at heaven and hell representing our connection or separation from God. And you're right, sinners reject God's grace and submit themselves to hell's agony. Because of God 's grace he wants us all to be at peace after this life, but he also doesn't tolerate sin. He gives us free will to choose our final destination whether it be heaven or hell, because like you said he can easily take away our freedom/free-will to stop us from sinning but that will destroy his integrity.

You voice your opinions well, I like that.
Have a nice day!

If you don't mind, I'd like to contest your claim that hell is a separation from God. I don't think that this is the real meaning of the Christian doctrine about it: If by "separation" you mean a literal separation from God, then God wouldn't be omnipresent; if you mean a separation from the love of God, then God wouldn't be all loving (omnibenevolent).
Now, if I were to choose I would prefer the first, as a God who's limited in power is preferable to one who is limited in love, but fortunately we don't have to downplay any divine attribute to solve this problem.
I think that Eastern Orthodoxy's doctrine of hell makes the most sense: when we die, we're all at the presence of God, experiencing Divine Love to the fullest. However, only those who accepted God in their lives will enjoy God's presence (Heaven) while those who didn't will keep rejecting it after their lives, thus perceiving God's presence as painful (hell).
 

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According to the Holy Bible, God created Hell for the Devil and his angels, and for Sinners and those who are not saved. But why would a loving God do this? Why does He want His own creations to suffer for eternity in Hell? If He exists. I've done plenty of research on multiple religions. Each religion, more or less, seems to believe in a Hell or multiple Narakas. Why would such divine beings create such an agonizing place to be?

Why create Hell for people to suffer in for eternity? (Christianity, Judaism, Islam) or a near eternity (Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism)?

Is this Hell a true place that God created for us sinners to go to when we die? Is this Hell the Earth itself? Or is this a tool used since ancient times to control mankind out of fear?

Oh so you wouldn't want people like Hitler and others like him who committed genocide to suffer?
 

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According to some people, bad Muslims have the chance to go to heaven after receiving punishment whereas good non believers are doomed for all eternity.

(Muslim as being an example)

Well of course
 

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Maybe he's not as loving? Remember, not everything is what it seems. Or maybe hell was already there to begin with?

Real talk, i doubt any of them exist. Just my personal opinion.
 
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