The Nature of God

Why Does God Allow People to Go to Hell?

So here you have four reasons why God allows bad things to happen, that we might call upon His name to save us. Now let's look at some reasons why God doesn't save you and just lets you go to hell and burn. Why does the Bible say, narrow is the path and there are few that ever find it, and broad is the path to destruction, and many will go thereupon?

Matthew 7:13 "Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:"

1. To Glorify His Own Power

God may send you to hell just to glorify His own power. He's God - He can do whatever He wants, and you just have to take it. You might say, it's unfair or unloving that God creates a homosexual just so throw them into the lake of fire. It doesn't matter what you think, you're not God. Who are you to judge the Creator of the universe, as a fleshy being that has to conform to your view?

2. To Demonstrate His Wrath

Again, He is God. All the wrath that Satan has is piffle compared to God's wrath. If God created Satan and Satan has all this wrath, where do you think that wrath comes from?

3. We Are Condemned Already

This goes back to what was said previously. God is just, and he may send you to hell because you're condemned already, that you didn't reach out for the Savior that is Jesus Christ. You have your entire lifetime to call upon Jesus for your troubles. And after you read this teaching and you still don't call out to Jesus, you're in even bigger trouble because now you have the truth. If you have the knowledge of good and evil, and you choose evil, greater will be your punishment in hell than if you did evil out of ignorance.

You didn't take the life saver that was thrown to you when you were drowning at sea. So if you're not going to believe in Jesus and accept him as your savior at least know how stupid you are: you fell off a boat at sea, you were thrown a life saver to pull you back in, and you refused to grab it. No one would do that in real life, so why do you refuse Jesus now?

4. The Creator Can Destroy His Own Work

If you're an artist and you paint 10 pictures, can you not decide which ones came out well and which ones didn't? You can look at 2 of them and say, These are good, but look at the other 8 and decide they're worthless; you have the right to destroy those other 8.

You can even say you wish you never created them, and toss them carelessly into the garbage. What you create you can also destroy. You are pleased with only a couple creations but displeased with the others.

So likewise, as God created you, he can also destroy you if you do not please Him.

And you might say, Well if God knew everything since the foundation of the world and we're just going through the motions of a preordained path, then God knew beforehand that He would create people that displeased Him.

And I say, yes, God did. God knew that there would be people that displeased Him, and so He will toss those people into the lake of fire to glorify His own power, because He's God and He can do whatever He wants. If this bothers you I suggest you come over to the side of Jesus Christ and live righteous and holy, and be spared being thrown into the pit.

Another view is from Matthew 22:14, "For many are called, but few are chosen."

It could be that the creations God decided at the foundation of the world would make it into heaven -- those are the chosen -- but the called ones God was not sure about. God is a being so high that He can create a human being, give it free will, and watch it to see what it does and if it will glorify God or not.

Yet there is hope. 2 Peter 3:9 says God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. Repentance is your way out. You can be saved from going to hell by repenting and accepting Jesus Christ as your savior. But just because God is willing that none should perish doesn't mean he won't send you to hell if you refuse. If you end up in hell it will be your own fault.