Re: Do people who have never heard the gospel go to hell?

"When it comes to suggesting annihilation as opposed to eternal suffering in hell, again this seems like a plausible objection. It fails, however, to understand that God is a God of life. Human beings are made in His image (Genesis 1:26, 27). Therefore, every person is of inestimable value. First, annihilationism does not fit the biblical evidence. Second, as has been noted, it fails to understand the worth God places on human life. Third, God respects human choice."

I've heard this argument before, but I can't make any sense out of it. God values human life so much that he will send those that don't believe in Him to a place of "no life" for eternity? Even those who believe in the Traditional teaching on hell (that hell is a place of eternal conscious torment) will say that hell is death because to be separated from God is death and there is no life apart from him. They will just say "death" doesn't really mean death as we know it, people will still be conscious and alive (which is another concept that makes no sense to me as I see death meaning death).

So how does it fit that God values human life so much that he will subject people forever to a place devoid of life? It just doesn't make sense. Maybe someone can help me out on that?

What makes sense to me is that to be separated from God, means literally there is no life.

Genesis 2:7
Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.

God is life so when he removes the breath of life, there is nothing to sustain someone for a life of torment or any other kind of life.

Psalm 104:29
29 When you hide your face, they are dismayed;
when you take away their breath, they die
and return to their dust.


"Third, God respects human choice."

So God sends people to this place of no life where they will be tormented forever and ever because he respects human choice? That doesn't make any sense either because what happens when they get in Hell and decide they don't want to be there anymore and would rather die than be tormented forever and ever. Does God's respect of human choice go out the window at that point?

"Annihilationism does not fit the biblical evidence."

It actually does. But so many just don't seem to want to look at the evidence that is plainly there.
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