This is where I disagree. You see, I don't believe in a God who just sends people to hell because they don't believe or worship in him. Why because that is childish. Why would you create people in the first place and then tell them they have free will yet they have to give you a form of attention or they will suffer the worst unimaginable experience for all eternity?
Again, nobody is "sent" to hell. All are sinners, born in sin and cannot exist in the presence of God.
Nothing is going to "send you to hell in a hand basket". The entire world population is in that hand basket from the get go..
There is only two options... being removed from said hand basket.. or. stay on the road to hell. Accept Christ, admit you are a sinner and doomed to face eternal separation from God or deny Him and stay in your comfy little hand basket.
That is God to you? I don't believe God to be irrational. I believe him to be intelligent, understanding, mature, and actually has humanity towards others. You can't say the same by what you say here.
I believe that God is totally rational.. totally merciful, totally forgiving and totally just.
Nobody, at the end of all time, will ever say that God gave them a raw deal or was not fair to them...
All will be humbled when God lays bare their actions and they will have no argument when He judges them and finds them guilty....
However, those that have accepted Christ.. although found guilty and falling short... will be washed clean and seen as white as snow. They will spend eternity in the presence of their creator.
It's not complicated...
I think Hell is for those like Hitler, Dahmer, Pol Pot, Isis Members, and whoever serial killer/murder/tyrant.. But for people who are geographically born in another place; people who grew up differently? No.
No, I believe you are wrong... There are millions of very kind and generous people... who will find themselves in hell. That is due to one thing and one thing only... they deny Christ. They are trying or thinking that heaven is for the nice, kind and generous.
There will also be those that we humans find irritating, selfish, arrogant, repugnant and socially delinquent... who will be given a pardon by Christ due to one thing and one thing only... They accepted the gift of salvation and did everything in their human power to be more like Christ.
For they knew that they were sinners and came to the foot of the cross to admit it.
We see the outward actions of people. We cannot see their heart and what obstacles and hurdles that they face in their mind and their life and have to overcome just to face each day.
This is, of course, extreme examples.. opposites on the spectrum. But, I'm sure you know someone who is the nicest and kindest and most respectable and selfless person you know. However..... they are atheist or just deny Christ and His work..
Well, they are not going to heaven. Sorry.. but that is the plain and honest truth.
In our age, we have a better understanding of things thanks to science and we know there are mental conditions that people have whether it be addictions, depression, or whatever imbalances. Some of them don't have a choice as you probably think.. and because of that I don't think God is evil that he isn't going to show any understanding or compassion towards that by just sending them to hell.
Again, God sends nobody to hell. And, yes, God will be the one to judge whether they had the mental capacity to comprehend their sin and can be held accountable. He is merciful and the personification of love itself.. Nobody will be held to something that was outside of their human abilities.
Also, there is a difference between sinners. You think Hitler and some teen who smoked weed are the same form of sinners? We are all sinners, even the most kindest person you know is a sinner, but just because we are sinners doesn't mean we are evil.
Here on earth, man has laws. Here on earth men will be held to these laws and their respective punishments.
God, on the other hand, has one line... you are either accepting of Christ... or you deny Him. Easy peasy.
I think that there is evidence, in scripture, for levels of punishment in Hell. I also, personally would like to think this is true.
However, there are only two kinds of people in a coffin.... those with salvation, heading for eternal life with their creator... and those who denied, refused and did not believe..they will be heading to eternal death..
Both are sinners.. no matter what level of evil or wrongs that they committed.