If God sends people to hell is that a God of love?

As others, I'm wondering where you have gotten this?

In my opinion and beliefs, God does not send people to Hell, the Free Will given to people who make the decisions based ON their own Free Will are the ones that essentially "send" themselves to hell.

Like others have said, however, it depends on the religion.

It depends entirely on your interpretation of Hell.

What religion are you referring to?

I don't think it's suppose to be viewed as him sending people there. But that is a good question. It would be nice for a hard core Christian to give a logically explaination for that.

God doesn't send people to hell. They send themselves.

God doesn't reject people.

People reject God.

**Jesus is the way.. the cross is the means.**

Nope, that is not a God of love. There are to many contradictions, and ultimatums in the Christian based religions as told about in the bible. It says you must do this or do that in order to get into heaven, but then they say you may or may not go into heaven because there is only so much room on the boat ect. ect. In some of the (mythological) stories of the bible God is a jealous and vengeful God, and in others he's an all forgiving and loving God? God sounds kinda manic or bi-polar, talk about mood swings, this God could be a poster child for Prozac or Zoloft! So what gives?

Control, confusion, mindgames, esoteric psychobabble, misinformation, that's basically what it's all about. People read the bible and take out of it what they "make themselves believe" to be the word of God, and then they use this "programmed information" to bend other weaker peoples minds to believe in "their way of life" or burn in hell... which is another term for "conform or be put to death". Some God aye?


Here's some interesting facts;

More wars have been fought in the name of God than for any other reason.

More people have died for their religous causes than for any other reason.

More people have died in the name of God, more so than all the wars combined throughout human history.

Religion is a multi-TRILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY.

Some religions believe that homosexuals should be put into prisons, or rehabilitation camps (that's a nice way of saying concentration camp) or be put to death altogether.

Some religions believe that women who have an abortion should be put to death along with the physicians that practice.

The catholic religion alone has enough money and owns so much land they could end homelessness, famine, hunger, and supply much needed medicine to every humanbeing on the planet for next millenium and beyond. But they only distribute a meager percentage every year and sit on the rest. Well they did start out as a financial institution,... the Vatican was the foundation of what we call the World Bank.

It's not as hard as people think. God gave people something that we in America take for grated, FREEDOM of choice. God gave us the choice to live a life with him, or the choice to live without him, pretty simple.

Now to ask that God isn't a God of love, you have to understand the fact that God maybe evil. Because if God truely sent people to hell, he would be evil, but God doesn't choose who goes to hell or not, we do.

A university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists?
A student bravely replied yes, he did!"
"God created everything?" The professor asked.
"Yes, sir," the student replied.

The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are then God is evil."
The student became quiet before such an answer.


The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.


Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question professor?" "Of course", replied the professor. The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"


"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's question.


The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Everybody and every object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have too little heat.


The student continued. "Professor, does darkness exist?"


The professor responded, "Of course it does".


The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."


Finally the young man asked the professor. "Sir, does evil exist?"


Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. "These manifestations are nothing else but evil."


To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love, that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."


The professor sat down.

God is love, but he is also Just! Why should a serial murderer get to go to heaven.

Just asking, where do you get that God sends people to hell? One that does not believe in God the creator has no need to fear hell, It is by faith that gives me the choice to know that those who believe in Him shall not perrish, but have ever lasting life. I do not sense that God sends me to hell, and I am the one who is suppose to fear that!

It really depends on how you look at it.

Here's the thought that bothers me:

If God created people with certain innate impulses, and then told them to go against those impulses for no logical reason...

And if that same God then told those people to worship him, then let 2000 years go by with nothing but old scrolls that contradict each other for proof of His existence, despite the fact that humans were distinguished from other creatures by their capacity for empirical thought...

And if he did all that just to see if they loved him enough to do it...

Is that a God of love?

Who says G-d sends people to hell? I think if that happens or if you believe it does, it is the people and their actions that sends them there.

There is free will.

God does not send people to Hell, and there is no Hell. (Hint: God is a title, not a name.)

A loving parent wouldn't torture their child for doing wrong and our loving God isn't going to torture even the worst evil doer.

Hell, as eternal torment, isn't in the Bible. It's a handful of verses taken out of context and creative replacement of the Hebrew word 'Sheol' in the OT with 'firey pit' or 'hole' when bad people died and what it means....the grave....when good men like Job ask to be sent there.

The Jewish religion has no eternal torment. The Hebrew Scriptures make no hint of it. Good men ask to be sent to Sheol (Hell). Jesus goes there.....it's the grave.

What did God tell Adam...eat of that tree and you will surely DIE....death, not torment. That would have been a good time to tell the guy if torment awaited him and if ANY sinner knew better, it was Adam.

(Romans 6:23) ...for the wages of sin is death...

Hell is a Latin word that replaces the Hebrew 'Sheol' and the Greek 'Hades'....both of these words mean the grave. Death where the good & bad go...even the perfect (Jesus). Want to know what that's like? Look up Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10 AND Psalms 146:4.....it's nothingness....a dreamless sleep.

(Ecc 9:10)Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

There is a second 'destination' mentioned. The second death, lake of Fire, Gehenna.....this is death too, but for good. That's how it differs from the common grave (Sheol/Hades - most uses of the Latin 'Hell' in modern Bibles).

Look at these verses from the end of Revelations 20:

And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged according to what they had done as recorded in the books. The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what he had done. Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. If anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.


Note something about the verses above. Hell and death....states of being, are thrown into the lake of fire (after all the people are emptied out of them).

So are the states of being being tormented? No....it's destruction, like the Bible says. The image of fire is clear throughout time...it destroys, burns up and whatever is burned is gone, for good - that's why it has been used here.

Our God, Jehovah, is most definitely loving. A religion that tells you different is lying and that's definitely not the only thing they are lying about.

He lets us choose our own destiny. Accept Jesus and be saved or reject Him and go to hell. The bible is very clear on this point. We must be born again to go to heaven for eternity with God and His infinite love. Chose your own way and you choose to go to hell and eternal torment, apart from the infinite love of God. Makes total sense, forever with God, or forever without God. God is love so the opposite is His wrath...hell.

God doesnt send me to Mcdonalds, I get up and decide to go there. So,too, do people decide their path to hell. He just tries to get you to change that path.

Its not reasoned like that. You have to put yourself in the Christian perspective. Its not wrong.

To the Christian, we all chose our own fate... by living our lives the way we do. God doesnt "send us" anywhere. Where we go is a natural consequence of our own choice actions.

Maybe God is slowly pulling you out of a present hell.

I don't believe in hell so that's a mute point to me. I do think we make our own hell.

The doctrine of Hell as taught by most religions is NOT taught in the Bible. That doctrine was adopted into the apostate Christian church along with many other pagan traditions and teachings.
What the Bible REALLY teaches is that the dead are not conscious of anything at all.

Ecclesiastes 95 For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. 6 Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.
10 All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in She′ol, the place to which you are going.:

I would say that our God is a loving God. He has given us all the opportunity of serving Him rather then the creation and for those who have died, there is the hope of a resurrection and everlasting life. That hope is available because of the ransom sacrifice Jesus made for us.

God doesn't send people to hell. They earn that place with their conduct. We have our own free will. What we do with it is up to us. If you hung a hose gushing watter in front of a thirsty horse and he refused to drink, shall you be blamed when he dies of thirst? God is not responsible for our fate we are.

God doesn't send people to hell

It's like how your parents ground you, its the loving thing to do. but he also wants us to be with him so he gave u an oppertunity to go to heaven wiht him. he doesnt send us to hell we choose it for ourselves

After God has done everything possible to bring you to him, and you have rejected it and him because you don't want to live for all eternity without the possibility of sinning, his love for you comes to an end. But it's by your choice, not his. Heaven is not just an air-conditioned place of amusement and entertainment. Though we don't know what it's like, we can be sure that there will be useful, enjoyable, and creative work to do there. You will not, however, be able to sin. The inclination and the ability will be taken away from you forever. If that disturbs you, you won't want to go to heaven, and if you found yourself there you'd want to get out. However, if you want to get out, that means you want to continue to exist, and sin, for all eternity, committing an infinite number of sins. At that point God's love is done with you--forever. He will however continue to lavish it on those who want to do nothing but good forever. The Bible says we will thank and praise God forever in heaven, which obviously means that God will continue doing wonderful things for us forever--you don't keep praising a great baseball game ten years later, or thank your parents every day for last year's birthday present.

well tenchnicly god doesn't send ppl to hell, ppl send themselves, he granted us free will, we choose what we do throughout our lives weather the choices are good or bad, we all have the choice, to follow god or the enemy, god loves us so mutch he even gave his only sun who died on the cross for all of our sins. we are given the choice and our freedom to do whatever we want in our lives though the punishment will come afterwords,

God did not create hell for men or women. However, as has been pointed out, God is Just and sin does indeed belong in hell. HOWEVER, God is Love and has done everything He can to get us to turn from sin and turn to Him.

Did you know that God actually pleas, begs, us to leave sin and pursue Him? Read this and tell me if this is a God who wants to send someone to hell:

"Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each one according to his ways, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent! Turn away from all your offenses; then sin will not be your downfall. Rid yourselves of all the offenses you have committed, and get a new heart and a new spirit. Why will you die, O house of Israel? For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign Lord. Repent and live!" Ezekiel 18:30-32

He sounds to me very much like a God of love!!

That's one of the main reasons I'm not a Christian anymore. God is a invisible avenger who tells everyone what to do and if you do anything wrong he will send you to a place of fire and torture where you will rot and burn for all eternity.......but he loves you? I like to think that I'm a fairly logical person, so that's just too stupid for me.

You don't go up and then down ...

You go up ...

or you go down ...

the choice is yours ... and it's being made now!

so get it together people ...

Alright here is how you have to look at it.

God is a loving God but God is also a just God.

This leaves him with a bit of a problem, punishment must be unleashed for your sins. Now if you accept Christ then Christ takes your punishment and you get into heaven.

If you do not accept Christ you must be punished for your sins and you go to hell.

Also if you are not accepting Christ then you are not accepting God himself. And since you are not accepting God it is only logical that God give you what you want which is a place to go to be free of him.

"If God sends people to hell is that a God of love?"

To answer your question as it is written - NO.

However as others have pointed out God doesn't "send people to hell".

People send themselves to hell by what they do/think/feel.

No, he would not be loving. The God of the Bible does not do that. "The wages sin pays is death"(Romans 6:23),not an immortal soul burning in Hell. "The soul that sins itself will die"(Ez 18:4)
Jehovah said through his prophet Jeremiah regarding the sons of Judah: “They have set their disgusting things in the house upon which my name has been called, in order to defile it. And they have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, in order to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire, a thing that I had not commanded and that had not come up into my heart.”—Jeremiah 7:30, 31. (Watchtower April 1 2007)

If this never came into his heart, how could he do this on a world wide scale. The problem lies with translators. The three words most commonly translated "Hell" are Sheol, Hades and Gehenna. The first two simply mean the grave. By the time Jesus walked the earth, the valley of Hinnom became a garbage dump, (compare Mr9:48 worms or maggots would be ever present consuming what did not make it into the fire) outside the walls of Jerusalem, and he used that in some parables to symbolize complete destruction or second death (Rev 20:14).

I would imagine that if those who teach a literal "Hell fire" really believed it, that they would be more zealous in the preaching work. Mt 28:19,20; Acts 5:42, 20:20
Do a search of "Gehenna" in a Bible dictionary. Compare PS 16:10 and Acts 2:31 KJ-Hell with NIV-Grave

God doesn't send people to hell...people take care of those travel arrangements all by themselves.

I just tonight...watched a great movie..."God on Trial" regarding all the peoples of the Bible that God 'smite'...(smited?)...and the innocent children of Kings that were killed as punishment to the royalty for having 'forsaken' God. Also...God commanded his 'angels'...not Satan...to 'wipe out' whole nations of people and put to death the children of those adults that had done 'wrong in God's eye's...

Very interesting movie...set in a German Nazi Death Camp..where the Jewish prisoners were debating whether God is Good..if there is a God...and why worship a God that may prove to be less than perfect...and...what Plan does God have...where he allows an entire race to be almost annhilated...

The Nazis wore belts with the words "God is on our Side" ... If the "Jewish" people are God's 'chosen' as they believe...then...

How can God be on both sides at once?

i USED to think bout that myself & say GOD wouldn't send us 2 hell cause he luvs us so much, but that isn’t so. When he died 4 us he gave us a choice in the matter of life. The Luv of GOD alone will not actually keep U from goin 2 hell. The ONLY thing in all of life that will keep U from that fiery place is believing that his son died on the cross 2 save your sins, it is stated in John chapter 3 verse 16)…. Providing U accept that luv or not & respond to it is your decision.

God does not send anyone to hell or purgatory. The soul itself on realising it's condition cannot stand in front of Goodness itself (God)and banishes itself from God. Eventually the soul is helped to overcome it's guilt and shame and makes it's way back home to God from whence it came

no he lost your soul in a game of texas hold em to the devil;(

God has done everything he can to provide a way for you to avoid hell, short of forcing his will upon you. God has given humans "free will". That means you have a choice in the matter. He will not force you to become his child.
Imagine for a moment that there is a homeless woman living under a bridge. I know that winter is coming and she will freeze without shelter. I ask her to marry me and live with me in my warm house, but she refuses.

Would you say that if I loved her I should drag her forcefully into my house, force her to marry me, and rape her? Of course not! That would not be love. Well, God is not into forced submission either. He has made the offer but it's up to you to accept him or reject him.

If you say you don't want anything to do with him he will respect your choice. But keep in mind that God is the source of all love, all peace, all hope, all light, and all compassion. If you reject him you will be choosing to reject those things. Since God's glory fills the whole universe he had to create a special place for those who don't want him; a place with no love, light, compassion, or hope.

God said, "I have set before you life and death, blessings and curse... Choose life" (Deuteronomy 30:19

We solely heard stories and in fact false stories about God. In my humble opinion, as someone who already has a near-death experience, we will join the source of love , peace and happiness when we die. We know nothing about him so it is better to wait until we join him.

No. Especially not for an eternity. No relief. Nothing. That is sadism.

God doesn't SEND anyone anywhere. Every person makes an individual choice.

Yes He is. If I go to hell, it is because I didn't fall in line with how He has declared me to live, and thus I put myself there because of my personal rebellion. He is a God of love, and of perfect judgment. Want heaven? Tuck tail.

Who is God? All seeing superior entity? Live a good life for the sake of it not because some book condemns you to eternal fire.

You're getting your gods mixed up. Aphrodite is the Goddess of love. The manic-depressive she-bitch of all that is holy is Jesus Christ, someone's lord and savior.

and dont forget our god is a vengeful god.

well, first god sends people to hell bodily, then when judgement comes they go to hell spiritually AND bodily, relying on what jesus said everyone will be saved when judgement day comes at the end of time, god loves everyone and by loving them he gives them the justice they deserve i wouldnt look at hell AS hell i would look at it as justice

Sure. "Tough love"! ;-)

The Christian hell is a giant evil hoax. Free will is also an unscriptural and unscientific hoax. Go to bible-truths.com.

if God would let criminals, thieves, prostitutes, rapists that never repented into heaven..is that a just God???
if they dont even believe in Him...why should they be given praise?

He does not send anyone to a hell. According to the Bible (any translation) the English word hell is not what many people think. I read a Bible based article. It describes "hell" and what Jesus said it was. You may find it and the website helpful. Here are some links.
The article is called "What Really Is Hell?"
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20020715/article_02.htm
"A Closer Look At Some Myths About Death"
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20020601/article_02.htm
Good luck to you and may find truth in your search.

yes it is a Loving God that sends the wicked to Hell. First off. society referes to God first as a Loving God . that is wrong . First God is a Holy God . Secondly . God is a Just God. then He is a Loving God, His Attributes are in that order.....Those who speak that "My God would never send a Soul to eternal torment of Hell". do not know God , nor know God in His essential Attribute of pure Holiness". God is Holy, he is Pure, Perfect, and Infinitely Good ". All sin is committed against God . and shows "Rebellion" against God . Yes. that is Love that sends the wicked to Hell

I dont think so, should he/she/it exist, according to what is described, he is a egoistical, genocidal child.