Board Thread:Bible Questions/@comment-30830071-20161223171447/@comment-31246436-20170204194249

We do apply this logic when putting criminals on trial. When they commit a crime, they now have a debt that must be payed. The judge decides how they must pay it, whether it be with their own life, a fee, or jail time. With God, rebellion is paid for with hell.
In the same manner of speaking that we would say a criminal sent himself to jail, we say that we send ourselves to hell. It is because of our decisions that we even go there, but it is the judge who sentences us there. One of the things you don't appear to understand (hopefully you do after I send this) is that when we say a person sends themselves to hell, we aren't removing God's responsibility but revealing our own responsibility in it all.