Haha, I had considered replying to that point with only one word: “Semantics.”

I kind of breezed by it because I’ve really only ever heard it used as a word game, without any deeper logical meaning. But you’re probably right that a more thorough analysis would have been a better read.

How many evil (however you would define that) people do you know who are just banging on the doors of heaven pleading to get in? Not many I’d say. They have become someone who wants nothing to do with the God of the Bible.

If going to hell was all about being an evil person, that would be one thing — still unreasonable in my opinion, but at least more understandable. Instead it’s supposedly all about having a relationship with Jesus. So someone who grows up Hindu in India and is a wonderful person has “sent themself” to hell because they didn’t renounce the religion they were raised in and choose Christ instead? And this makes them evil?

And on the flip side, there are plenty of people who have lived “evil” lives and then turned to Jesus in the end. Somehow they deserve to go to heaven now?

I think we probably just die and no cosmic being is sorting us to reward or punish us according to our beliefs.