1. Does it seem coherent that a holy God would allow man to continue sinning, rebelling, and hating Him while in a state of death forever? Or as D A Carson sees it, hell is a continuous cycle of sin, guilt and punishment. This sounds more like a version of the dualistic Manichaeism of Augustine’s past than of a just and holy God.
2. If an eternal hell does not rid God’s universe of sin and death but instead keeps it perpetually cycling forever, does this sound like the plan of a holy God who said He hates sin?
3. If to be holy as God is holy from Leviticus 19 is defined as the keeping of the law and summarized at the end as “Love your neighbor as yourself” then is not love the evidence and fruit of holiness? Since love is the summation of the law of God then are we not condemned by the fact that we have not “loved our neighbor as ourselves”? Therefore is this not the very thing, lack of love for God and neighbor, which has made us unholy? And yet is it not the fulfilling of God’s holy law by Jesus (loving us, His neighbor) the thing that actually saves us? So then does His holiness both condemn and save us? Does not Romans say He is both “Just and the Justifier” (3:26)?
4. If you believe God, who is holy, plans to eradicate sin from a certain number of His creatures why would it make Him less holy if we claim He plans to destroy evil and sin among ALL mankind instead of perpetuating it within billions in hell forever?