Re: If God loves me why will he send me to Hell?

In response to the above question, I quickly wrote the following email. Was it enough? Was it too "Calvinistic?" What are your thoughts on my response?

Hi. I know that you said that you didn't want any explanations, as all seem the same and do not suffice for making any logical sense for you, but I just wanted to say the following that you might understand something very important. The truth of the matter is that you are looking at things from the wrong perspective, and you are being confused by a presupposition drawn from a false conclusions. What I mean is this: God does not love people because of something in the person - he is not drawn or enthralled to a person due to something inherent loveliness in the person. Rather, God simply loves a person because he chooses to love the person. Because God is sovereign, he simply chooses which God hating sinner (and we all exist as sin loving and God hating sinners until and unless God changes us), will be the object of his sovereign love. It is written in the Psalms..."God hates all those who do evil" (Psa 5:5). Notice this please. God hates.

All men do evil according to the God the Bible. "All have sinned and fallen short of God's glory" (Romans 3:23). God created men for him (to display his glory and infinite worth), and when men give praise and honor and glory in created things; thereby showing their ingratitude for their Creator, God is rightfully upset and seeks to punish such unloving ingrates. He gives to us all we esteem to be fun and precious and worthy, and yet we forget him and glory in created things - whether it be people, things, ourselves and our own way, etc. I'm sure you can at least see why God's wrath is reasonable and just.

That said however, God delights in saving his enemies (after all, he saved me). He commands (not suggests) that all men everywhere repents (turn from their sins, i.e., stop living for themselves as an end of itself), and trust in Jesus (because Jesus fulfilled the laws we broke, i.e., ten commandments, then he died as a substitute sin sacrifice, because God deemed it right to kill people who sinned against him.) Now, therefore, if you trust in Christ for your justification, and not your presumed goodness, God will give you Christ' righteousness, and your sins would be credited to his body where he paid for sins on the cross. This may sound foolish to you, but this message, though foolish sounding, is the power of God to save people like us. As it is written in scripture, "God uses the foolish things of the world - like the preaching about a man who claimed to be God, who died for sin and rose on the 3rd day to justify sinners and prove his claims - to shame those who feel they are wiser than God."

I really do pray that God would choose to love you, as Grace (unmerited and undeserved mercy) is your only chance for escaping God's real coming wrath.
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