Hell is not unreasonable. We all have sinned. Even just once, we fall short of the perfect standard. More than that, we are just messed up imperfect people, and we just dont deserve heaven. Hell, created for the devil and his angels who rejected G-d, is the only place for us. Every sin is a rejection of G-ds laws, and if G-d created this place to send his angels to because they reject his ways, it is inly fair that he gives everyone of us the same treatment. Only a fair and loving G-d would send people to hell.
It is because G-d's wrath against all sin is real that his love is relevant. Were it not for the curse of sin and hell, Yeshua would not have needed to die. We sinners reject G-d my even existing; we consume His air and His food ususally with ungratefulness and and the assumption that we somehow deserve them. Yeshua is not dying for decent people who just went wrong. THe level of hatred we show G-d by our sin changes the comparison. let me put it this way: Yeshua was a Jew. He died to save Hitler. Hitler simply rejected that. It's the same for all of us. Yeshua not only died for unworthy people, He died for people who killed him, hated him, and reviled himWe are the people who killed him hated him and reviled him. This is G-d's love. That while we were yet sinners, Yeshua Died for us.
Yes G-d loves us, But not with a pandering love, but with a perfecting love. He is not pouring wrath out lavish love on the world, at least not the way humans think of love. G-ds anger and are signs of his love, that he would make us perfect and offer us a way to perfection that we are not capable of and reject on our own. Unless you have real Justice and wrath, the concept of G-d's love is robbed of its meaning and importance.
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