Being placed in hell is an act of love if there is reincarnation, and thus the opportunity to learn the reality of divine law that cannot be ignored.
Otherwise, you have the situation of an eternal hell, which a lot of people find to be contradictory to the idea of a loving God.
I wonder if people really think this through. Many people have died in their twenties rejecting God. Imagine, instead of dying, that they were taken to Aushwitz. Imagine seeing them in the camp 60 years later, broken by the horror and abuse of the camp.
According to you, that’s nowhere near enough for God. Instead, a hundred billion years later, it’s still not enough for God. And all for 20 years of error?!
I’m not arguing with you here. I’m just pointing out that a significant number of people see this teaching as the declaration of a psychotically insane and sadistic God, from whom Jesus could never have come.
And I’m also pointing out that if this teaching is not true, then it has driven a billion people away from Jesus and many of them into the arms of political collectivism to seek their security, not to mention all of those who turned completely away from God in disgust and despair.
These are just facts, and they aren’t even hidden - liberals can and do openly confirm this sequence of thinking.
I confess I don’t quite follow the argument of your response.
My ways are not your ways, and My thoughts are not your thoughts."
Trying to figger out WHY GOD has set up the way things are is a fool's errand.
It never crosses their mind the HE is also a WRATHFUL god?
"I'd never worship a god like that!" would be the response you'd get.
And if it IS true???
Your argument is completely illogical. It is solely based on how you have created God in your image. If your argument is that God didn’t say what He said because it doesn’t match your viewpoint, the problem isn’t with God.
Mat 18:8-9
(8) And if your hand or your foot causes you to offend, cut them off and throw them from you. It is better for you to enter into life lame or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
(9) And if your eye offends you, pluck it out and throw it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire.