We often question God and the way he works for many things in life. We ask why he would put us through this pain, or allow certain things to happen when we assume he made everything happen exactly how it did. We fail to realize God created us, and we go from there, yes if we hear his word through scripture, prayer, and acknowledging him in our life he will help guide us, however even then he does not force our actions upon us. Eternal damnation is something we create and I think that is the main claim in “God Judges No One”, we are how we choose to be. Once God has created us and we are here on earth we decide our own hell and heaven, and that decision comes from what we do in life, how we do it, and who it affects.
Most people say well how could God create this murderer, how could he bring this man into the world knowing what he will do. This is where we draw flaw in how we view hell and what God creates and does. That murderer is living in his own hell he created, he is forever out casted he “ when we do not share our lives, we end up outside of life.” this is a great example of how the author says we make our life, God puts here and we do the rest, essentially our heaven, is happiness, being with loved ones, having love and a community that you create around you of faith and something that is your own heaven, away from the images we believe of clouds, all white and in the sky. We create our heaven and we create our hell. That murderer is being publicized everywhere, name calling, most likely in jail, four walls, horrendous food, and damnation from the outside world, will never be allowed into the free world, a righteous man without scrutiny and scorn, one could say that is a definite type of hell.
When we decide or choose to believe what hell is or what we think is portrayed the generic flames, and eternal fire, we stop and blame God for all the bad things that happen in the world. A good point the author made is that we are condemned to our hell because we do not love God or trust and abide by him, or we do not believe we are choosing dark. His son is here to help guide or paths, God does not know what we are going to choose but he hopes when we believe then we will be guided to greatness and or perception of heaven once we die, but for those in the dark and fall of the right path they are in the hell they created, by action.
We are not saying hell does not exist or that people do not receive eternal punishment, but to claim God decides is barbaric. This is my biggest agreement with the author, we decide our fate. Eternal punishment is not what Gods decides, just like when we do something bad and we have that guilt that weighs on our shoulders forever until we fix or change what we did. This is the same thing we live with what we do and suffer punishment from our consequences. Though this all may seem redundant this is the truth. The cliché saying of “actions have consequences”, this does not stop once we are no longer on earth, it will indefinitely decide how we spend our afterlife (though the afterlife theory could be debated) and that is why we listen to God and his words to make sure we are right in life to be in our versions of heaven once we are gone. We decide what happens in life, hell is real but it is our perception, not Gods and the author explains this very well.