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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do not have to wrap your head around it.  You just have to have faith.  That is the mystery.  Don't be a "Doubting Thomas," who must see to believe.  [/quote]

This advice only applies to  those who believe they they will burn in hell if they don't accept Jesus as their savior.[/quote]

I think most Christians believe that not being with God IS being in Hell.  [b] It’s not like God sends people to Hell[/b].  God wants people to be with Him.  People choose to go to Hell rather than be with and accept God.  [/quote]

Why did he make such a place, then?  He could have let bad christians or non-believers just cease to exist when they die.  Instead he created a fiery hell for them to go to for eternity.[/quote]

I don’t think a lot of Christians believe in a firery Hell.  If anything, it is a cold place away from Gods love.  [/quote]

How do you know this?[/quote]

Just reading Christian authors, Dante, CS Lewis, Thomas Aquinas, St Augustine, for my Catholic mom book group.  
None of them seem to talk this way about Hell, and when they do it appears pretty clearly metaphorical.

Plus there are tons of parables in the Bible about God finding his lost sheep, about God accepting those who have left with open arms, etc.  it really doesn’t seem to me that a lot of Christian adults believe that God is trying to cast everyone who turns away from Him into a fire pit that He creates for this purpose.  [/quote]

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