is that it is people who put themselves in hell, not God. “God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance,” the Bible says. If anyone goes to hell, then, this is against God’s will! It is simply inaccurate to construe God as taking any delight in people’s pain. He tells us explicitly, “I take no delight in the destruction of the wicked” (Ezek. 18:23). It is, rather, the rebellious people themselves who “loved darkness instead of light” (John 3:19). Hell is where they want to be, not where God wants them to be.
