In this life, people choose heaven or hell. People go to heaven because they love God and want to submit to him. They go to hell because they want to live their lives with meaninglessness, through instant gratification and separated from God. They think that is more fun during this vapor of life on earth. People who want to go to hell will go there. God gives people what they want..If you want to be God and savior for yourself, you can go for it. God does not want anyone to perish and has told us how not to go there. But if we choose the prideful self-centeredness of our own hearts rather than the peace and eternal rest we can have through Christ, then God will judge our violation and rejection of him. I believe in Hell and have come to find relief in the thought as I witness greater and greater evil going on in the world, many times protected by the world’s claimed systems of justice which are anything but. It is a comforting thought that justice will be brought against true evil, if not here, then in the next world.
“Because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath when his righteous judgment will be revealed. God will give to each person according to what he has done. To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger.” Romans 2:5-8
“There will be a time of distress such has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But, at that time your people..everyone whose name is found written in the book...will be delivered. Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.” Daniel 12:1-2
I really liked and pretty much agree with your post. One thing, though: I believe justice will be brought against true evil, but I believe God will follow his standard MO for those that refuse Christ. There are lots of OT examples of what God does to the unrighteous. And the interpretation by those whos lives are contemperaneous with those events are apparent: The evildoers are done away with. They are removed, killed, etc. The only suffering they receive is at the time of death and, of course, the miserableness of their lives before they died.