I asked why he would send you to Hell if you reject him of your own free will, just like he allows you.
Becuase Hell is the place for those that will have
nothing to do with the reason they were created for. Can you force a rebel into Heaven? Certainly not. Apart from what our pastors like to tell us, Heaven and Hell are not solely places of infinite rewards and infinite punishments; a man can be wicked and accept rewards, while righteous and undergo punishment. Nay, Hell is a place of immoral people -
objectively immoral people, those who would have nothing of free salvation, even though they may be 'righteous' in the eyes of the world; Heaven is a place for people who fit their reason for creation. It is the ultimate grace and freeom bestowed upon us by God to allow us to choose our eternal destiny. Anything less than this liberty would be immoral; not the place we end up.
Take this scenario, then.
A man is born. He grows up to be entirely sinless by Christian standards, except for one thing: He doesn't believe in God. Now, is it right to eternally torture this person? BTW, eternal means that he won't ever stop being tortured.
We seem to misunderstand how Hell is used in scripture. The biblical portrayal uses two words - Hades and Gehenna. The latter being - if we all know our basic mythology - a place of 'nobodies'. It is a place you go if nothing else fits your view. Christ spoke of Hell as Gehenna, which was literally a trash heap Southwest of Jerusalem during His time, and such a place very well may still exist. I believe both uses of the words carry profound meaning, namely that the souls that will have nothing of the reason they were created for do indeed get what they want, even though they are rendered useless in so doing. Eternal
torture is by no means biblical. There are references to Hell being a furnace
as well as it being place of the 'outer darkness'. Revelation 20:14 speaks of death and hades being cast into the lake of fire, which would mean, if literal flames are true, that death and hades can literally burn. But they can't. Anguish, wrath, gnashing of teeth (which represents anger according to acts 7 and not externally enforced torture as many say) - these are all part of Hell, but we must remember that such a place is self-subjected. A person only goes there if he rejects his divine right. And that sounds like quite a difficult thing to do, in my opinion. But this still doesn't mean - regardless of how little we know in regards to how many may end up in such a place - that there won't be rebels who fight their way to such a place until the bloody end.
The doors of Hell are locked from the inside.
