Destination of many so called christian's.

Those who reject God thereby choose hell, which is separation from God. What God is guilty of, so to speak, is respecting the free will of creatures that he created in his own image by allowing them to exercise their choice to reject him.

It is the final destiny of every person who does not receive salvation, where they will be punished for their sins. People will be consigned to hell after the last judgment. Hell is the dwelling place of those who reject God irrevocably, whose alienation from God is a permanent expression of their own ill-used freedom, and whose suffering is at once physical (burning by fire) and spiritual (deprivation of God).

In traditional English versions, he does occasionally seem to speak of “Hell” – for example, in his warnings in the Sermon on the Mount: anyone who calls another a fool, or who allows their right eye or hand to sin , reject the teaching of the bible will be cast into “hell” (Matthew 5:22, 29-30).

What is destination in the Bible?

While their answers may vary widely, the Bible presents only two ultimate destinations: either heaven or hell. Because of their overwhelming significance, it's important to be clear about the reality of these destinations. But what's even more important is how heaven can be reached by a mere human being.

One of the things that’s very important when you talk about themes of punishment in scripture, the theme of consequences for sin, the most ultimate of those is hell, is the position from which you examine those themes. Here’s two starting points that will always get you into trouble.

Of all the topics found in the pages of Scriptures, none is so loathsome and dreadful as the subject of hell, yet we dare not be blinded by ignorance, repulsion, or unbelief, for hell is a frightening reality that ought not be dismissed on the grounds of fear or unpleasantness. Despite the objections of some, the flames of hell will not be extinguished by clever Scripture twisting or wishful thinking. The Bible has much to say about hell, and neither ignorance nor denial will cause this grim reality to go away.

We should understand the distinctions Scripture makes between Sheol and the eternal lake of fire. For purposes of this post, we will speak of “hell” as commonly understood: a place of torment after death. The Bible says that the unrepentant who die are immediately ushered into a dreadful holding place called Hades. In the following passage, Jesus details the horrid fate of an unregenerate sinner.

First is the starting point of the centrality of the human being in the biblical story. Human beings are not central. God is central. This is God’s story. I think the most important words in the Bible are the first four words. “In the beginning, God…” If God is on site, if God had created all of this, then everything is His. Everything belongs to Him. Everything is from Him and of Him and through Him. To Him be the glory. That’s Romans 11:36. And so, whatever doctrine I look at, I have to look at it from the centrality of the glory of God, the glory, the holiness, the perfection, the centrality of God. You’ll never ever understand difficult doctrines unless you start there. This is God’s world..

Now, this is where this goes. He has the right to do with this world whatever He wishes because it’s His. If I’m a painter by avocation, when I put my hands to that canvas, it’s my creation. I can do with it whatever I want because it belongs to me and that’s the position of the Creator.

There’s a second starting point that will get you in trouble. It’s the worthiness of the human being, that we are innately, theologians say ontologically, worthy human beings. We deserve good happening to us. And so, if you don’t start with the centrality of God, you get into trouble. And if you start with the worthiness of the human being, you get into trouble. What the Bible declares is that God is central and that we are unworthy.

One of the most shocking passages in all of the Bible is in the Psalms, where it says, “58:3 The wicked go astray from the womb, speaking lies.” There’s never a moment in my existence where I’m good. There’s never a moment, not my very first breath, where I have God in His rightful place. And so, hell is not this horrible thing that God does to these good people who are in the center of the whole thing. That’s not what it is. Hell is actually the rightful state of everyone who has ever been born because everyone who was ever born rejects and rebels against the One who is central.

So I don’t actually struggle with the doctrine of hell. I struggle with, “How could it ever be that I would be freed from that?’ How could there be mercy this great? How could there be grace this huge? How could it be possible that people who shake their fists in the face of the One who is central could have His arms of love wrapped around them and spend eternity in His presence? How could that ever be? That’s crazy to me, but for the cross of Jesus Christ.

Hell isn’t crazy to me. It’s sad. We should not want for anybody to ever be in hell, but it makes sense to me. God’s mercy given to me makes no sense except for the sacrifice, the payment of Jesus. That’s how I handle the doctrine of hell..

The lake of fire, the place of eternal punishment, was never intended for man; God ordained the lake of fire as the final stop for Satan and his army of fallen angels (Matthew 25:41; 2 Peter 2:4; Revelation 20:10). Regrettably, legions of unrepentant people will, by their own volition, spend eternity with Satan and the demons who joined his unholy rebellion (Matthew 10:28; 25:46). The poet Milton described the damned as those who prefer ruling in hell over serving in heaven. Indeed, those who choose hell are rebels to the very end.

God Does Not Send People to Hell. He simply honors our choice.

God does not delight in the suffering of unredeemed man. He takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked and would rather see them turn from their evil ways and live (Ezekiel 33:11). Hell is a necessary reality. Imagine a man who spent his entire life avoiding God. Regarding the Scriptures as fanciful myths, he had no use for Bible reading. He considered prayer a one-sided conversation with a nonexistent being. He maligned sincere Christian believers with unsavory labels and mocked their adherence to biblical morality. From reaching the age of accountability until his dying breath, he distanced himself from his Creator. How, then, could such a man be happy in heaven? How could he tolerate the presence of Jesus Christ and His followers throughout the endless ages to come? For such a man, heaven would be a hell. It is God’s will that none perish, but for those insistent rebels who reject His mercy, there is only justice. No third option exists.

Upon death, the lost are immediately sent to the place of their choosing, Hades (hell), where they will remain until the judgment convened at the close of our Lord’s millennial kingdom. At that time, they will be consigned to the lake of fire along with Satan and his demonic forces. Forever, they will remain fixed in this diabolical state of being.

To think anyone would choose never-ending misery over God’s everlasting joy is unfathomable, yet it is true.