I'm a Christian but this has bothered me all my life. If God loves us all and wants us all to go to Heaven and to be saved, and if He is all powerful why did he make Hell?
'Hell' ['hades' in Greek, 'sheol' in Hebrew] is simply the invisible state of the dead awaiting resurrection - Jesus called it 'sleep' until resurrection do not listen to what sinners , even sinner priests, say because they are led by Satan to preach falsehoods:-
1 John 3:8 He that committeth sin is of the
devil
Psalms 13:3 Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the
sleep of death;
John 11:13 Howbeit Jesus spake of his death: but they thought that he had spoken of taking of rest in
sleep.
realise that Jesus says ALL are resurrected from hell, there can be no 'eternal hell' as sinners speak of based on mistranslation of scripture by sinners :-
Revelation 20:13 ....death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
note too that all who are still sinners by Jesus' return are destroyed [Matt 7:13] but all resurrected from death and judged by WORKS, not grace, in the new earth kingdom come, after sin's 'wages' of death free them from past sin to be allowed spirit baptism [as all flesh is given in the new earth -Joel 2:28] top receive all Truth from God [John 16:13] as obviously does not happen to more than a few [Matt 7:14] in this life where the many are destroyed for sin [Matt 7:13] :-
Romans 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
realise then that mass religion of sinners is already corrupted from teh word of God as Jesus warned must be the case for the whole world [Rev 13:3-4] , that only the few escape only tens of thousands stop sinning and Love in this life to be saved at Jesus return -Jude 1:14- but countless many are saved later [Rev 7:9-10] who were destroyed as sinners [including sinner priests] in this life [Matt 7:13]
Why did he have to make his son suffer?
Jesus died to show men the ONLY way of salvation , it was not God that made him suffer but men who unjustly convicted and crucified him despite that he was without sin and cleared of all accusations against him by the Roman governor of Jerusalem...
thus if he is not to have died in vain for you , consuider ALL three baptisms he went through, what they mean :-
Luke 3:16 John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
baptism of water is the COMMITMENT of dying to sin, to STOP sinning , the first step, the foundation of God which very few even take seriously [parents even baptising babies as if a baby needed or understood dying to sin] :-
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
thus if one has not stopped sinning by time of Jesus' return [or by death if sooner] then one's salvation will be after resurrection of all sinners in the new earth kingdom come, not in this world, Jesus says he will take none who are still sinners :-
Luke 13:27 But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are;
depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
the second baptism is baptism of the spirit yo know all Truth [John 16:13] once one has stopped sinning, this is God coming within once one chooses to Love instead of sinning against anyone any longer :-
1 John 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
1 John 4:16 ... and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and
God in him.
clearly one needs all Truth from God Himself as this world is led and dominated by sinners even in mass religion of sinners ... God thus ensures the purity of His teaching by teaching all himself who are under grace, so no-one under grace teaches anyone else under grace [compare this with mass religion where sinners teach sinners, bl;ind leading the blind into the ditch of death [to be saved later once death frees them from sin] :-
Heb 8:10 ...
saith the Lord; I will
put my laws into their mind, and
write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
11 And
they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for
all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and
their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
and the third baptism, trial by 'fire' , resisting temptation to sin against others, proving one's Love is true belief in Love, not just words
1 Peter 1:7 That the
trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be
tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
James 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
...
James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that
faith without works is dead?
Love is what you give freely, it is an action, not just saying one believes in Love but doing it...
so Jesus died to show us all that man could live a perfect life of Love, giving the LIE to what sinners preach that man is born a sinner and cannot stop ...
Hebrews 4:15 For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin.
Jesus died then to give courage to the saints who followed him, that they would face unjust torture and death for sake of faith in Love, faith in God who is Love...
Jesus then died for sake also of those who killed him... because the salvation of the many depends completely on the salvation of the few in this life... the few firstfruit saints are the kings and priests of teh kingdom come in the new earth where the many are later saved [e.g. Rev 7:9-10]
