The Bible tells us that Hell was created for the devil and his angels – not for humans.
Humans were created to have a loving relationship with God.
However it seems that humans have their own free will and can choose to follow the devil and his angels.
It seems that there is an inate ‘value’ in a human life. Far beyond what we can comprehend. Jesus didn’t just have to die ie: his pulse had to stop – or else he could just have slit his wrists. But rather he had to prove ‘obedience to the point of death’.
My take is as follows:
Man is created.
Man is a selfish being.
God cannot exist in a relationship with an unloving species.
Jesus takes on the form of man and demonstrates that man can love unconditionally in obedience to god.
As such he shows us the way.
As for others going to hell, I am undecided on this. You see, I think that hell is reserved for those who reject God and by proxy reject Christ – however, I do not think that anyone does reject him.
I think that Musilims, Buddhist, Atheists etc reject the ‘notion’ of Jesus as understood from their POV.
They do not reject the ‘truth’ (in Christ) because they have no revelation of it.
They truly do not KNOW christ – they may know OF him, ABOUT him etc, but there has been no ‘revelation’.
I think that hell is for those who, after having the revelation, reject Christ.
Of course I am so convinced of Christ that I believe that there are very few people in history who, after having a TRUE revelation, actually reject Him.
