It Seems That Hell For The Unrepentant And Wicked Is Unfair To Many Including To Some Professing Christians

 


It seems that the existence of Hell not only seems inhumane and unfair to the unbelieving world, but even professing Christians struggle with the reality of eternal damnation and would rather that such a thing ought not be because they feel that the idea of anyone being forever and unrelentingly tormented for all eternity regardless of what evil they might have done in this life goes against the nature of a God of love and mercy but the author of the following piece makes some excellent points that should help us understand why anyone would be condemned to eternal damnation:
 
 
 
The issue is not simply the duration of punishment. It is the nature of the offense.
 
Sin is not merely the breaking of a rule. It is rebellion against God’s person and authority, His holiness, His rightful place as the eternal Sovereign and King…The seriousness of sin is not measured only by what is done, but by whom it is done against.
 
And God is not finite. He is infinite.
 
If the debt of sin remains — if it is not covered through Christ — it is not something the sinner can ever satisfy…he is left to pay what he cannot pay, to answer for what he cannot answer. “Till he should pay all” is not a path to release. It is a sentence that never reaches its end…
 
Therefore, Hell is not the result of a punishment that is too long. It is the result of a debt that must be paid and is too great to ever be paid.
 
Nor is the matter confined to sins committed in this life alone. Scripture indicates that the condition of the heart does not change after judgment. The Bible repeatedly teaches that when the unjust are cast into Hell, there will be “weeping and gnashing of teeth”
 
Yet no one in that place weeps because he has offended God; he weeps for himself, because he is forever lost. The gnashing of teeth speaks of rage — an unrelenting anger directed toward God and His justice.
 
There is no true repentance there — no love for God or submission to His ways. The unregenerate man remains what he was, only now fixed eternally in that condition. In life, he was at enmity with God, and that enmity does not cease; it continues without end. The opportunity for transformation, for repentance, for redemption from rebellion, is gone. Thus, the rebellion of the heart does not soften; it endures forever.
 
In other words, the flames of Hell are not fueled merely by the sins of a lifetime, but by a soul that remains in perpetual opposition to God. The judgment, therefore, is not only because of what has been done, but because of what continues to be. The sinner never turns toward genuine contrition — his lost and unregenerate spirit remains forever set against the God he rejected.
 
Hell endures forever because rebellion endures forever. [1]
 
 
 
If we are not willing to submit to the authority and ways of God in this present life, why would we in the next?
If we are going to persist in enmity and rebellion against our Creator in this present life, then why would we not continue to do so in the next?
If we refuse to take pleasure in doing that which is good and right in the eyes of our Creator, then why would we take pleasure in doing so in the next?
If we are not willing to live and do all things on the terms that God has set forth in this life, why would we in the next?
And if we persist in refusing the love and mercy of God in this life, why would we be receptive to it in the next?
And why should God allow into His Kingdom unregenerated and unrepentant souls who refuse to turn away from their sins and submit to Him?
Why should He allow into Heaven those who take pleasure in that which is sinful and evil in His eyes?
And why should He make citizens of His Kingdom those who constantly reject His offer love, grace, mercy, forgiveness, and redemption?
 
If God were to allow unrepentant and unregenerated souls into His Kingdom, then Heaven could no longer be Heaven; instead, it would become Hell because the evil of the unrepentant and unregenerated souls would infect and corrupt the Kingdom just as it has infected and corrupted the earth which is the reason why God cannot allow an unrepentant and unregenerated soul into His Kingdom
 
The Kingdom of Heaven is fit only for the those in whose hearts and souls resides the love and fear of their Creator and for those who seek to do that which is good and pleasing in His eyes and for those who have appreciation and gratitude for the love and mercy shown to them by their Creator.
 
It is not fit for those who take pleasure in the things that displease the Almighty, who reject His authority, and who spurn the love and redemption that He offers to all of mankind and the day is coming when Heaven will come to the earth but that will require an elimination of all things sinful and evil which will require eliminating from the earth all who remain in their sin and who are persistently unrepentant and when that day comes, there can be nothing else for them to look forward to except an eternity of separation from their Creator which in which they will be filled with nothing but an unrelenting torment for all eternity.
 
But it is not because God sent them to Hell, it is because they sent themselves to Hell by their refusal to repent of their sins, by their refusal to submit to the authority of God, and by their refusal to receive the love and redemption offered to them.  They could have chosen Heaven, but instead, they chose Hell where they will be in the sin in which they chose to remain and for all eternity.
 
Every day God calls as many as will be persuaded to repentance because He is not willing that any should perish and be damned for all eternity (2 Pet. 3:9) but that all would come to repentance and be saved from eternal damnation and in His love and in His mercy, God has provided that redemption in Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior His only begotten Son, (Jn. 3:16) who came to us in the flesh, (Jn. 1:14) and being without any sin (2 Cor. 5:21) was made that perfect sacrifice (Heb. 7:26-27) that was needed to take away the sins of the world and because of His perfect goodness, He was able to offer Himself up on our behalf to satisfy the demanded penalty for all sin and granting mercy and grace through the shedding of His blood on the cross and after having died, rose again from the dead three days later that we might be justified in Him (Rom. 4:25) if we will but call upon His name so that we might be saved from what would otherwise be a terrifying everlasting punishment if we will but call upon His name (Rom. 10:9, 13) and believe in our hearts that God raised Him from the dead (Rom. 10:9) for it is by calling upon His name in sincere repentance that salvation is granted and our souls made clean from sin thereby liberating us from the threat of eternal damnation and with that cleansing comes a new spiritual transformation (2 Cor. 5:17) that causes us to no longer desire to follow after selfish and worldly pursuits but after those things that pertain to the Kingdom of Heaven,
to no longer take pleasure in those things that are evil and displeasing in the sight of the Lord, but in that which is good, right, and pleasing in His sight,
to no longer desire to walk in the lies of this present world, but only in the truth that comes from Christ Almighty who is the source of all truth, (Jn. 14:6)
no longer placing our hopes in the things of this present world, but looking forward to that new and better world to come, (Rev. 21-22)
to no longer rely on worldly resources, men, or even our own power, abilities, skills, and wisdom for our needs and provision but upon God who is able to meet all of our needs, recognizing that the resources of this world and even the people He brings into our lives are but instruments and vessels through which God meets our needs and that the skills, power, knowledge, and wisdom by which we might acquire our provision are provided and instilled in us by God, (Mt. 6:25-33)
to no longer fear what men can do to us, but rather fearing the God before whom we will have to one day give an account for how we lived our lives, (Mt. 10:28)
to no longer look to corruptible institutions within our society for direction and order in our lives but to God who, by His written Word has given us laws and precepts to be applied to our lives and which serve to produce and maintain an ordered life, and who, by His Holy Spirit which comes to dwell within us upon repentance, establishes in our lives a course and direction in our lives to pursue for His glory,
to no longer seek our own glory but the glory of God,
to no longer rally behind corruptible men, but instead behind the incorruptible God in Heaven bearing in mind that those men and women God raises up for our edification are but instruments and servants of His for that respective purpose to which He has called them,
to no longer seek to align ourselves with the things of darkness but only with the things of the light,
to no longer trust in the wisdom of the world but only on the wisdom and knowledge that comes from above, (Jas. 1:5) nor depend on corruptible earthly authorities to swiftly administer justice, but only in the power of God to deliver us from evil.
 
And it is this new inward transformation that reconciles us to our Creator (2 Cor. 5:18) from whom we had once been estranged and just as our souls are cleansed from sin and our spirits regenerated in Christ Jesus thereby liberating us from the eternal tormenting punishment that must come upon all who remain in their sins, so one day we look forward to the liberation of our bodies from death itself when our mortal and corruptible forms are transformed into that which is immortal and incorruptible and from that which is imperfect to that which is perfect (1 Cor. 15:51-55, 1 Thess. 4:13-18) and lastly, creation itself will be delivered from the curse placed upon it because of sin when it is made into a new and better world (Rev. 21-22) and the new and better world to come was the world that God had initially created to begin with and in that world there was no death, no suffering, and no evil, just as in the new world to come, there will be no death, no evil, and no suffering as there is now, and it was a world in which existed a perfect and uninterrupted harmony between God, man, and nature, just as there will be in the new world to come, but an act of disobedience and transgression consequential beyond comprehension disrupted that harmony when the first man Adam and the first woman Eve ate of a fruit from a certain tree which they were warned of God to not eat from which was called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, having been warned that in the day that they ate thereof, they would surely die (Gen. 2:16-17, 3:3) 

But when they committed that fateful act, it was then that the world fell into the fallen decaying state that it is in now and in which death and suffering abound beginning with them when, upon the eating of that forbidden fruit, sin entered into them and when sin entered into them, the sentence of death came upon them just as they had been warned (Gen. 3:19) and from them, the sin which entered into them and brought about their eventual deaths, was also passed down to all of mankind for all of us are descendants of that first man and that first woman and because we are their descendants, we have also inherited the sin that entered into them (Rom. 5:12) and because of that sin which we have inherited, we all sin in some form or fashion and as a consequence we all die for as it is written, the wages of sin is death (Rom. 6:23) but sin is not merely confined to outward behavior or performance or even the words we speak, but it is rather the inherent inward corruption of our very nature defiling our thoughts, hardening and darkening our hearts, and corrupting our very motives which is why it is written that we are not defiled from that which comes from without, but that which comes from within (Mt. 15:11, 18-20) and which is why it is written that all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God (Rom. 3:23) which demands of us nothing less than moral perfection and not just in our outward acts but also in our inward as well which is why it is impossible by our own efforts and our own goodness to enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, for sin taints, corrupts, defiles, twists, and distorts more than we can comprehend and the effects of sin are not merely confined to mankind, but all of creation is subjected to a curse because of sin which is why it is written that the entire creation groans and travails in pain to this day. (Rom. 8:19-22)
 
And it is because of the pervasive nature of sin and how inwardly corrupt it makes us to the point that even our own efforts to do that which is good are made to fall short in some form or fashion that it became necessary for the sinless and uncorrupted Christ to offer Himself up on behalf of sinful man; to do for sinful man what sinful man could never do for himself and that was to purchase in His death the redemption of mankind and after having purchased in His death our redemption was raised again from the dead so that we by our faith in Him would be justified before Father God Almighty, be reconciled to Him, and made citizens and members of the Heavenly Kingdom and that new and better world to come that has been promised to all who will in all sincerity call upon the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins so that they will not be sentenced to eternal damnation, but so that they will be brought into the Kingdom of Heaven where there will be peace, joy, contentment, and happiness before the Lord God Almighty for all eternity.
 
What will you choose reader? Will you choose to submit to the authority of your Creator and take pleasure in doing the things that are good, honorable, and pleasing in His eyes, or will you persist in taking pleasure in the things that are evil in His sight?  If you desire the mercy and forgiveness of sins that God offers and if you desire to do that which is good and pleasing in the eyes of our Creator, then I urge you reader, if you have not done so already, to call upon the name of the Lord Jesus for the forgiveness of sins.  Redemption is but a simple sincere prayer of repentance away:
 
 
 
 
"Lord Jesus I need you.
 
 
I realize that I am a sinner
who has fallen short of the glory of God
and that my goodness falls short
of your standard of Moral perfection.
 
Please forgive me of all of my sins.
Come into my heart and into my life
to be the Savior and Lord of my life.
Make me into the servant and follower
that you want me to be.
In your name Lord Jesus, I pray.
 
 
Amen."
 
 
Know that God is not concerned with the words that you use to call upon Him forgiveness, but with the attitude of your heart and if you have, with all sincerity, have asked Christ to forgive you of your sins, placing your trust in Him only for your salvation and in nothing else, then your sins are forgiven and your place in Heaven is certain.
 

 

 

End notes:

 

 

 

1.  Mark Creech, Op-ed Contributor, “If eternal Hell seems unfair, you may be asking the wrong question,” Christian Post, April 13, 2026

https://www.christianpost.com/voices/if-eternal-hell-seems-unfair-to-you-youre-missing-the-point.html

 

 

 

Scripture references:

 

 

 

1. 2 Peter 3:9

 

2.  John 3:16

 

3.  John 1:14

 

4.  2 Corinthians 5:21

 

5.  Hebrews 7:26-27

 

6.  Romans 4:25

 

7.  Romans 10:9, 13

 

8.  2 Corinthians 5:17

 

9.  John 14:6

 

10.  Matthew 6:25-33

 

11.  Matthew 10:28

 

12.  James 1:5

 

13.  2 Corinthians 5:18

 

14.  1 Corinthians 15:51-55, 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18

 

15.  Genesis 2:16-17, 3:3

 

16.  Genesis 3:19

 

17.  Romans 5:12

 

18.  Romans 6:23

 

19.  Matthew 15:11, 18-20

 

20.  Romans 3:23

 

21.  Romans 8:19-22