Response to a Question

It seems to me that very well justified claim about Christianity’s beliefs on the afterlife has become popular. This claim concerns the doctrine of Heaven and Hell, and either follows a path that concludes that a just God wouldn’t send people to Hell, or that God because He is just doesn’t send people to hell.  Unfortunately the Bible says very little about the afterlife other than Jesus’ mentioning of the life that He brings, and it says even less about Hell. So I suppose it is up to theologians (and amateurs such as myself) to come up with an answer to the presented question. Now this is my line of thinking, and I’m not saying I’m right because we simply don’t know. I think that the doctrine of Heaven and Hell is perfectly in line with the concept of a just and loving God, and that is because I don’t believe that God sends people to hell. Now you may be thinking ‘wait a minute Tay Tay, if God doesn’t send people to hell then who does?’ I then ask you to think about it this way; the people who supposedly go to hell are those who, although they were given a chance to accept God, chose to live a life separate from God. Jesus said “I am the way, the truth, and the life,” the option of going to Heaven really is open ended. I then ask you to think about those who refused God for whatever reason, it may be non-belief, anger, stubbornness… do you really think that they want to spend eternity with God? Think about it, if I don’t want to believe in God then I don’t want to spend an eternity worshipping Him in Heaven. So where do I go? Well, a place where God isn’t, which would be Hell. I don’t think Hell is so much a world of fire and brimstone as it is an absence of God, and thus an absence of all the good things that He has created. Now I may be wrong, but this is just my thoughts on a subject that I have noticed comes up often.