You then make a quite common (and a quite disturbing) claim when you say, “[God] made a way for everyone to be in his Kingdom, but [many] refuse that gift.”

 

My Friend, if God truly is as perfect in His Love as Jesus himself says He is (see Matthew 5:48 + 1 John 4:18), then He will forever leave the door open for us to choose Heaven, and this no matter how staunchly or how persistently we refuse to enter … In Truth, if each of us only has an 80 year window of opportunity to essentially guess correctly (with eternal torment as the consequence if we miss … Seriously?!?!?!), and if we cannot humbly change our minds once we die and only then receive the objective evidence that God is still withholding from us to this very day (How diabolical of Him!), then it is He who is flawed and it is His Kingdom that needs repair – not us or ours!

 

You & yours are the first to admit that we are all “sinners”, Lucy; that we are all innately flawed – and He made us so! (or at the very least, He allowed us to choose to become so & remain so) … As such, it is nothing short of wickedly unjust of your God to punish us for failing when He knew in advance that most of us would indeed fail!

 

P.S.  And by the way, it is patently ridiculous to say that anyone would ever choose to burn forever, my Friend.  The only people who would ever truly do so are (the extremely rare) sadomasochists – who would not even mind being in Hell anyway.   How fortunate then, that The Apocalypse of Peter (a book that was considered by the Church to be valid Scripture for several hundreds of years after the death of Christ – and a book that 2 Timothy 3:16 seems to endorse as valid Scripture to this day) resolves this tricky problem for you; noting as it does that God will be reminded by the saved in Heaven of the perfect Mercy that He has temporarily forgotten, and will then repent Himself, and free every Soul from the cruel confines of his unjust Hell …

 

“My Father will give unto them all the life, the glory, and the Kingdom that passeth not away … It is because of them that have believed in me that I am come. It is also because of them that have believed in me, that, at their word, I shall have compassion for all men … Behold now what shall come upon them in the last days, when the day of God and the day of the decision of the judgment of God cometh. From the east unto the west shall all the children of men be gathered together before my Father that liveth forever. And He shall command Hell to open its bars of adamant and give up all that is therein.” ~ The Apocalypse of Peter (Coptic edition)

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