Jesus said: "'love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High; for he is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked.'" Luke 6:35 (NRSV)
If God is kind to the ungrateful and the wicked then how can there be a hell?
"'Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you you may be children of your Father in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.'" Matthew 5:44,45 (NRSV)
If God sends light and rain to evil people how can we say He punishes them in hell for ever?
To be children of God is to be like God.
And Jesus says that God does not punish evil people.
Rather He loves them and helps them.
So we need not fear hell.
If God helps evil people how much more will He help those who love Him.
[Scripture quotations (marked NRSV) are taken from the New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., and are used by permission. All rights reserved.]
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