Hell

Modern man does not believe in hell anymore. People associate the belief of the existence of hell with the Middle Ages. If anything, one believes in the existence of God but not in things like hell or the devil. This seems to be old-fashioned.

But doesn't pure logic require the existence of hell once one believes in the existence of God? Believing in God means believing in an almighty and just supernatural being. And His justice requires the existence of hell. If everybody would meet in heaven regardless of what they had done on earth, saints would mingle with dictators like Hitler, Stalin and Mao who had killed millions of people in their lifetime. Such a scenario is hard to imagine. It would contradict the idea of God, whose main character trait is justice.

We all know that life on this earth is far away from perfect justice. So, if there is a God who is executing justice, He needs to hold people accountable in the afterlife for what they were doing on earth. The question that follows then is more or less automatically: "Who would go to hell?" 

Once one accepts the idea of an existence of hell and agrees that Hitler and the likes of him will be held accountable for their wrongdoings, the question is then where we draw the line: Whose sins are big enough that they deserve hell and whose sins don't qualify for hell? It is evident that every single human being does have sins in their life. Making a list of sins that would qualify for hell and sins that don't seems arbitrary. Again, the only logical conclusion is that every single human being deserves hell because of the sins that separate them from a holy God. Heaven then is for those who accepted the forgiveness provided by God Himself.