Accoding to the Bible, God created hell, and the rule that all who have sin will go there, and the foreknowledge that man would sin. Add to that the fact that no one can really be sure of hell's existance because of God's refusal to present any tangible evidence to support it, and one can arrive at the conclusion that God is much more directly involved in an individual's going to hell than the individual himself.
This may be rebutted with the argument that God provided man with a way to escape hell, by making a simple choice, however, how can one be blamed for going to hell if they don't have a reason to believe in its existance?
Furthermore, why must man be born with the sin nature in the first place? If God is indeed "perfectly just", shouldn't we get the same choice Adam did, instead of inheriting the consequences of his actions? And let me go ahead and say that the choice of whether or not to accept Christ does not in any way equate to Adam's decision. God walked with Adam and spoke audibly to him, and told him audibly not to eat the fruit of a certain tree. If God took a walk down the street with me and told me audibly to accept Christ, of course I would do what He says, instead He puts His will in a book, and assumes that we will know it to be true.
Accoding to the Bible, God
Accoding to the Bible, God created hell, and the rule that all who have sin will go there, and the foreknowledge that man would sin. Add to that the fact that no one can really be sure of hell's existance because of God's refusal to present any tangible evidence to support it, and one can arrive at the conclusion that God is much more directly involved in an individual's going to hell than the individual himself.
This may be rebutted with the argument that God provided man with a way to escape hell, by making a simple choice, however, how can one be blamed for going to hell if they don't have a reason to believe in its existance?
Furthermore, why must man be born with the sin nature in the first place? If God is indeed "perfectly just", shouldn't we get the same choice Adam did, instead of inheriting the consequences of his actions? And let me go ahead and say that the choice of whether or not to accept Christ does not in any way equate to Adam's decision. God walked with Adam and spoke audibly to him, and told him audibly not to eat the fruit of a certain tree. If God took a walk down the street with me and told me audibly to accept Christ, of course I would do what He says, instead He puts His will in a book, and assumes that we will know it to be true.