A Loving God Doesn't Threaten His Children with Hell?
You say a loving God wouldn't send His creatures to hell, and it's unfair to threaten and intimidate you by holding hell over you ,....right?
In reality hell is a certain consequence for those who choose that fate willingly. A place not intended originally for man, but for satan and his angels.
God takes no delight in the death and punishment of the unGodly, and in fact has done everything possible to help us avoid it. He does not want to see a single soul enter condemnation anymore than a parent would enjoy seeing their beloved child go astray in the world, subjecting themselves to horrific danger and disaster they bring on them self.
The fact is, the universe would not function without it's natural laws of duality ; There is a binary aspect to all things....light-dark, good-bad, death-life, etc. Thus there would and should be a counterpart to eternal happiness, for it to have any meaning.
If there is no consequence for wrong doing, how does goodwill make sense?
And if everyone gets to go to heaven, then it ends up being no better place than here on earth. Where God resides, no sin can be present. The heaven I look forward to is a perfect place.
Hell makes no sense, until you come to see it through the clarifying lens of love.
Sin is a danger to you and those you love. A father will go to any length to protect his children. Ultimately, survival demands the extermination of evil that endangers the innocent, and our loving heavenly Father has a plan for vanquishing the disease of sin which threatens the safety of His children and just punishment upon the purveyors of infectious sin.
Make no mistake...God's perfect love, must include Justice.