No it is not. Gen 3:22 says we know what is good and evil just as He does.
And we do know good and evil, as God does, good is accepting Jesus and following God's commands, evil is belonging to sin, the world, and the devil.
It is Black and White in God's Word, it is Heaven or Hell in reality.
I am truly just shocked that so many believe the worst case scenario on hell. You would be ok with serving a God you know is doing this? Shows an extremely wicked side to Him in heaven?
I am shocked also brother, with your views, they are similar to the example of the retired vicar I spoke to, he could accept God punishing people, God is Love he said.
God is Love, so much so He allowed His One and Only Son, to die for 'our sins'.
In the OT we read how God had to continually punish the Jews for their disobedience to Him.
Jesus died a terrible death and took the weight of the worlds sins upon, God allowed Jesus to suffer so.
Look at all who have been martyred for their faith, God allowed it, Jesus said, he who tried to save his life will lose it, he who loses his life for my sake will save it.
All through scripture man is punished for their sins, all through scripture we are warned of the consequences for our sins if we do not repent and come to God through Jesus.
And throughout scripture we are warned of Eternal Life or Eternal Death, the latter confirmed as the lost souls after judgement 'crying and weeping and gnashing of teeth' That hardly seems a party, a ball game, or other such activity. Scripture makes very clear those who are not saved will pay the price, they don't have to all they have to do is repent and come to God through Jesus, who paid the price they should pay, and what a price Jesus paid. If they choose not to accept Jesus then they have condemned themself.
John 3:16-21 (NKJV)
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 He who believes in Him is not condemned;
but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed.
21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."
We all have th same choice, the warnings are clear, and there are lots of them.
God has given us the ability to make sound judgement calls and dish out fair sentences 1 Cor 6:1-9. What we believe should happen to the evildoers in hell does carry weight. Even with God.
It is not our call brother, it doesn't matter what we think, God has told us what will happen, if you choose not to believe it because, God is Love, or for any other reason, you are in effect telling God you do not believe or accept a lot of His Word, a lot of what Jesus taught us.
Matthew 13:24-30 (NKJV)
24 Another parable He put forth to them, saying: "The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field;
25 but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way.
26 But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared.
27 So the servants of the owner came and said to him, 'Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?'
28 He said to them, 'An enemy has done this.' The servants said to him, 'Do you want us then to go and gather them up?'
29 But he said, 'No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them.
30 Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, "First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn." ' "
What happens to the none believers? The are, the weeds.
Matthew 13:36-43 (NKJV)
36 Then Jesus sent the multitude away and went into the house. And His disciples came to Him, saying, "Explain to us the parable of the tares of the field."
37 He answered and said to them: "He who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
38 The field is the world, the good seeds are the sons of the kingdom, but the tares are the sons of the wicked
one.
39 The enemy who sowed them is the devil, the harvest is the end of the age, and the reapers are the angels.
40
Therefore as the tares are gathered and burned in the fire,
so it will be at the end of this age.
41 The Son of Man will send out His angels, and they will gather out of His kingdom all things that offend,
and those who practice lawlessness,
42 and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
43 Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!
As you know there are many examples, scripture is very clear.
We serve God because He is good Psalm 136:1. I guess some just serve Him because they are ''terrified of his dark side'' ….which He doesn't have 1 John 1:5.
God is good my friend, so good he allowed his one and only son to die the cruellest death ever invented, for our sins, for the worlds sins, for all who will turn from sin, from their wicked ways and come to God the Father through Jesus the Son, in Jesus Name.
There are many reason people serve him as we know, not all who serve him are saved, head Christians are not saved, only those who are truly born again are saved. There are many attend church (places of worship) every week that are not saved, there are many outside the denominations who are saved, but sadly a lot more who are not. Maybe some are serving for the reason you say, maybe some are not accepting God's Word on this topic because to many loved ones could be in hell. On the last statement we must never think those who have gone before are in hell because we cannot be sure, they may have repented and given their life to Jesus just before they died.
We will only know for sure who is in Heaven when we get there our self, providing we get there ourselves. I do like the saying...
When we get to heaven we will be in for a lot of surprises, not just the place itself, many we thought would be in heaven may not be there, many we thought would not be in heaven could be there, we will only know if we get there ourselves.
Peace be with you brother.
