You have to wonder, or at least I do, why John felt that he had to write God is love (I John 4:16). It’s probably because by the time the first epistle of John was written rumors were already going around at how mad God was about what we did to Jesus and He had created this place called HELL to send everyone that in on the crucifixion of Jesus. Didn’t Jesus make the point clear about the love of the Father? I guess not.

Listen, an eternal hell poses a big moral problem for God!

Yep, even God would have a moral cloud on His heavenly character if an eternal hell was His doings. That my friend would be a major inconsistency in the character of God that Jesus presented. Talk about a bump in the theological-philosophical journey. Then there’s this “who won” question. Seriously.

If more people wind up in an eternal hell than go to heaven (you do the math), how does God becomes a winner in this match called life? Clark Pinnock (Christian theologian, apologist and author: and Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at McMaster Divinity College) put it this way.

“Everlasting torture is intolerable from a moral point of view because it pictures God acting like a blood-thirsty monster who maintains and everlasting Auschwitz for His enemies whom He does not allow to die. How can one love a God like that”? Fair question, no?

You can have that Hollywood, fire breathing, angry, and hacked off God.

Me? I’m following the God Jesus described!