How can a Loving God send people to Hell?

     The question has been asked many times " How can a God of Love send people to Hell?"
     The answer is rather simple if you will just spend some time in the Bible. Let's start with why was Hell created in the first place? Answer : it was created as a place of punishment for Satan and his angels. Matthew 25:41 " Then the king will say to those on his left, "Get away from me! You are under God's curse. Go into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels!" Hell is not the place where Satan rules his kingdom from, but is the final place of punishment for him and all who follow him. The idea of Satan ruling Hell comes from writings like Milton's poem Paradise Lost where the quote " better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" is found. Just like the description of Satan with red skin and horns come from the Middle Ages, much about him is folklore and legend not true fact. In fact the Bible tells us in Ezekiel 28:12  Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. He was and is a very beautiful archangel, so powerful even Michael the archangel would not argue with him "Jude 1:9  But Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing judgment, but said, The Lord rebuke thee." 
      
      I am convinced through my study of the Bible that God does not send anyone to hell, they choose to go there by their own free will! God gives us a choice to choose to follow Him or Satan, if we choose to follow Satan, how can we expect to escape the punishment set for Satan and his angels?! I am constantly amazed at how stubborn some people are when God makes Himself so clear to them and they still refuse to repent. No greater example of this than in Revelation Chapter 16:9,11&21 people are experiencing the worst of the Great Tribulation and know full well it is from God, yet still blaspheme God.Why? Because of the inherent sin nature of man.  

     One of the biggest objections people have of Reformed theology is the view of limited atonement. In other words not all who are called will respond in faith. The verses in Revelation 16 seem to make this crystal clear, no matter what happens some will follow Satan into Hell regardless of what happens. According to Revelation 12:7 Satan, in his rebellion in Heaven, was able to draw away 1/3 of the stars of Heaven i.e. Angels. It should not surprise us if mere mortal men follow him too.

Will more gun laws really help?

Did any of the 22,000 gun laws on the books help prevent the tragedy at Newtown Conn.? Of course not! Why? Because gun laws are not the problem, mental illness is. This young man who committed this tragedy obviously had some sever mental problems, I mean think about. What kind of deranged individual shoots 20 young children and 7 adults that as far as we know he had no connection with. 

     On Friday Dec.21, 2012 NRA's  Wayne LaPierre gave a speech on their response to the tragedy, here is the link  http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/12/21/167785169/live-blog-nra-news-conference. I agree whole heartedly with him on this, the only way to stop these people is with an armed security guard. I know as all law abiding gun owners do that had someone who was properly trained in security and firearms could have stopped this tragedy! This was totally preventable, totally avoidable! As is mentioned in the audio clip above we have advertised the fact that there are no guns on the school campuses, thereby creating a perfect environment for something like this to happen! The shooter knew he could walk in there absolutely unopposed and totally safe. Just to type those words makes me sick! I am a CLEET certified armed security guard and I and others like me know how easily this could have been avoided. 

     The NRA has made a generous offer to schools nationwide to train and equip at no cost armed guards for our schools to prevent this from happening again. Leave it up to the liberal media to spin this in some negative way. I do not like the idea of having an armed guard in every school, but given the choice of what may happen again and in all likely hood will happen again if these steps are not followed.

   Of course most important is that we repent before God and ask His forgiveness of our sins and heal our land. We have taken God out of the schools and our society for the last 50 years and have seen a steady decline in education, morality, and the direction of this once great nation of ours.