It is ethical for God to send people to Hell.

-DEFINITIONS- God: The Christian God... omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, omni-benevolent. Hell: the abode of Satan and the forces of evil; where sinners suffer eternal punishment (Princeton Wordnet) ethical: ethical motive: motivation based on ideas of right and wrong (Princeton Wordnet) -BURDEN- Pro must show that it is completely ethical or mostly ethical for God to condemn people to Hell. Pro can do this by showing why my points are irrelevant, unethical, fallacious, etc. In doing this, pro must avoid those attributes himself. Pro is NOT welcome to play with semantics. Oppositely, Con must show that is completely unethical or mostly unethical for God to condemn people to Hell. Con is bound by the same guidelines as Pro (see above). To begin, I believe it is UNETHICAL for God to send people to Hell. Onto my case... -NEGATIVE CASE- A: Criteria for acceptance into Heaven, estimations, and sin Sin = vialation of a law of God (e.g. 10 Commandments) A1. In order to go to Heaven from a Christian perspective, one must faithfully believe in God and that Jesus died for his/her sins, admit to being a sinner, and ask for forgiveness [1]. Doing more good deeds than bad deeds is simply not enough and will actually land you in Hell. A2. "Now, let's say that one in ten people are genuine born-again Believers. We are clearly told in Matthew 7:14 that few people ever make it to heaven!, 'Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, AND FEW THERE BE THAT FIND IT' (Matthew 7:14; Luke 13:23,24). Consider the billion people in China who know not the Lord Jesus Christ! Consider the countless hundreds of millions of Arabs (Islamic Muslims) who worship Allah and the prophet Mohammed. Consider the billion Catholics around the world that worship Mary and are trying to earn their way into Heaven through the keeping of the Seven-Sacraments and good works. Countless billions of people are trusting in their religion to save them instead of the Lord Jesus Christ. I have no doubts whatsoever that 90% of the people in this world are going to Hell. Why? For one simple reason friend, they do not have the Lord Jesus Christ as their Savior, their sins have not been forgiven. We estimated that 232,876 humans die every day on average. 232,876 minus 10% equals 209,588 people that perish into hell fire and destruction every single day that passes. So roughly, 200,000 HUMANS PLUNGE INTO HELL FIRE EACH AND EVERY DAY! We also see that 23,287 people (10%) make it to Heaven each day on average." [2] So, on an average day, 10% of people are going to Heaven and the other 90% are headed to Hell. A3. Sinning is in our nature and is an innate process [3]. The ONLY way around sin is explained in A1. God hates sin [4]. A-Arguments: As established in my A section, God absolutely hates sin. However, we are sinners by nature, it's not something we can control. Since God is omniscient, he knew that Adam and Eve would begin this innate, sinful nature for all of mankind to be doomed to. This is questionable on its own but to further my argument, I'll let it slide for the moment. Now, sin is just a factor in going to Hell, it's not the main reason. If it was, absolutely no one could get into Heaven. The main reason for going to Hell appears to be NOT asking for forgiveness and not correctly conforming to Christ. Pro may wonder why this is so challenging but when we examine the diversity of religion, you will see condeming people to Hell is unethical. I would argue that even condeming serial killers or child molesters wouldn't be just. Hell is eternal punishment and I doubt it is possible to even fathom such a thing. I'm sure Pro knows of the victims in the Holocaust and how they were savagely treated - can you imagine the Hellish torture they are currectly receiving and will be receiving forever? After all, Jewish people don't go to Heaven because they technically reject Christ [5]. This ISN'T ethical. B: Ethics of sending people to Hell, religious observations, and tolerance B1. There are a practically endless list of religions and they are true to each of their respective followers. Religion is a significant component of many cultures. B2. Eternal suffering is the worst punishment one could receive. You can be tortured, raped, beat up, etc. but those do not last forever. It would be nearly impossible to even imagine eternal suffering. B3. In some cultures, finding Christianity wouldn't be possible nor acceptable. B4. God essentially sends you to Hell for not being accountable to him and devoted to Jesus Christ. He will also send you to Hell if you have different beliefs. To draw this to scale and apply it to real life, it would be as if I wouldn't be friends with someone because they held different beliefs than me. This is unacceptable, especially of a being that is supposedly all-good. B-Arguments: I stated in my A-Arguments section that condeming people to enternal punishment no matter how severe their transgressions were is unethical. Sending people to Hell just because they do not believe in you and do not worship you is barbaric. On a similar note, sending people to Hell because they worship a different God than you is also barbaric and an extremely jealous act. God loves all his creations yet according to my A2, most people are going to Hell anyhow. God is omniscient, he knows this is going to happen and apparently he is perfectly fine with it because he won't do anything about it. Surely, if you loved someone, you wouldn't let them suffer; especially not for eternity. No matter how far a human sins, he/she is still one of God's creations. -NEGATIVE CONCLUSION- It is definitely unethical to send people to Hell for the reasons I have provided. I await Pro's response. Vote Con. -SOURCES- 1. http://www.jesus-is-lord.com... 2. http://www.soulwinning.info... 3. http://www.associatedcontent.com... 4. http://www.christiananswers.net... 5. http://www.biblestudy.org...