How can a Loving God Send anyone to Hell? 
by: Darrell G. Young
Focus On Jerusalem Prophecy Ministry

   How can a Loving God Send anyone to Hell? We hear this challenging question to God's very nature all the time. But in reality, this very question in and of itself is a subtle trick question, designed to challenge God's very nature and authority.

   A better question appropriately asked would be as follows, “If God is LOVE, then why do some people go to hell? Our modern pop culture defines a “loving God” as a completely non-confrontational being who tolerates anything we want to do. But that is not the biblical reality about God as revealed in the Bible. Logic would suggest that, If God is love, then He cannot be at the same time unloving.
The first fallacy in this question is, “Is the idea of allowing people to go to hell an unloving act on God’s part.” If we humans decide that God is wrong to allow unrepentant sinners to pay their penalty for sin, then we claim that we are more loving than God is.

  The 2nd fallacy presented by this trick question concerns the word “Send,” which denotes an action only on  the part of the sender. This understanding of the word send cannot be applied because God has given human beings freedom to make their own life choices. We all have a choice and each makes his own life decisions.

   The way this question is worded implies that, if anyone goes to hell, it is the result of God’s unilateral action alone, & the person being sent to hell is just a passive victim, with no options!
But God has given us options! It is called Grace! God gave us the freedom to choose how we respond to Him. To give us no option but obedience would be a violation of our free will. God loves everyone, but he will never force anyone to love him back. True Love is only love when it is totally voluntary, and freely returned. Therefore, we cannot love God unless we have the option of not loving Him. 

   God is not some bloodthirsty evil tyrant seeking to Send as many people as he possibly can to Hell. In fact, God loves us so much he has done everything in the world he can possibly do to prevent anyone from ever going to Hell. He became one of us, and paid the ultimate price of Love, by allowing evil to crucify him on a Cross in the greatest act of Love ever demonstrated in this world! And he did it, so that nobody need ever be SENT to Hell. 

   So, why would a Loving God Send anybody to Hell? The truth is; He doesn't; those who go to Hell reject his Love and Seal their own destination to that awful place!