Misconceptions - 7. A Loving God would not send people to Hell?

'If God Loved me so much why would He send me to hell'

This is a statement I hear fairly often and it is an interesting point. The Bible makes out that God Loves us so much that He would even be willing to die for us. So why would He send us to hell?

God is perfect in Love, but He is also perfect in Justice.

When you are wronged, you are usually quite passionate about seeing that 'justice' is done and it is indeed the same with God, except God hates all wrong. God hates murder, rape, lies, theft...He hates all He considers wrong (and this is how we know if there is wrong, because God said so...How else do we know? There is no acceptable standard other than one set by a Higher being than ourselves...otherwise it is human opinion vs human opinion and how do you work out who is right? Rant over haha) and He will punish wrong to make it right again.

If someone you loved was raped and murdered, you would be desperate to see those responsible brought to justice and rightly so.

Now I am not accusing us all of being rapists and murderers, but we have all sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23) and we deserve to be punished for this. As God is such a Holy God and only perfection can stand in His Presence, we cannot go to Heaven. The Bible says that the wages of sin is death (Romans 6:23) and this death means spiritual death, in that we cannot be in relationship with God.

I began this post by pointing out that the Bible states that God loves us so much that He sent His only Son to die for us (John 3:16). This is where it turns around...God wants us in Heaven and He has made a way through Christ.

Romans 10:9
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.


God loves us so much that He died to pay the wages of our sin, so that we can go to Heaven. If we fail to take heed of this, is it any fault other than our own?