To believe that anyone will be endlessly tortured by God robs people of joy in their own salvation. Even worse, there are those who are convinced that if they do not believe in hell, they might spend eternity in it.
Humanity is being deluded by the wisdom of this world and here is what the Bible has to say about such wisdom…
“Let no one be deluding himself. If anyone
among you is presuming to be wise in this eon, let him become stupid, that he
may becoming wise, for the wisdom of this world is stupidity with God. For it
is written, He is clutching the wise in their craftiness. The Lord knows the
reasonings of the wise, that they are vain. So that, let no one be boasting in
men.” (1 Corinthians 3:18-21)
If the Bible is true, and I believe it is, then Christ Jesus died for the sins of all humanity, and therefore all humans will be reconciled to God.
“Now I am making known to you, brethren, the evangel which I bring to
you, which also you accepted, in which also you stand, through which
also you are saved, if you are retaining what I said in bringing the evangel to
you, outside and except you believe feignedly. For I give over to you
among the first what also I accepted, that Christ died for our sins according
to the scriptures and that He was entombed, and that He has been roused the
third day according to the scriptures” (1 Corinthians 15:1-4)
“For if,
being enemies, we were reconcilied to God through the death of His Son, much
rather, being reconciled, we shall be saved in His life. Yet not only so, but
we are glorying also in God, through our Lord, Jesus Christ, through Whom we
now obtained the reconciliation.” (Romans 5:10-11)
The Bible says all humanity dies "in Adam", all humanity will be made alive again "in Christ".
"For even as, in Adam, all are dying, thus also, in Christ, shall all be made alive...The last enemy is being abolished: death....Now, whenever all may be subjected to Him, then the Son Himself also shall be subjected to Him Who subjects all to Him, that God may be All in all...For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal put on immortality...then shall come to pass the word which is written, Swallowed up was Death by Victory...Now thanks be to God, Who is giving us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Corinthians 15:22, 26, 28, 53-54, 57)
Its is God's will to "head up all in the Christ".
“Grace to
you and peace from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Blessed
be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who blesses us with every
spiritual blessing among the celestials, in Christ, according as He chooses us
in Him before the disruption of the world, we to be holy and flawless in His
sight, in love designating us
beforehand for the place of a son for Him through Christ Jesus; in accord with
the delight of His will, for the
laud of the glory of His grace, which graces us in the Beloved: in Whom we are having the deliverance through His
blood, the forgiveness of offenses in accord with the riches of His grace,
which He lavishes on us; in all wisdom and
prudence making known to us the
secret of His will (in accord with His delight, which He purposed in Him)
to have an administration of the complement of
the eras, TO HEAD UP ALL IN THE CHRIST -- both that in the heavens and that on
the earth --in Him in Whom our lot was cast also, being designated
beforehand according to the purpose of the One Who is operating all in accord
with the counsel of His will.” (Ephesians 1:2-11)
I am certain that humanity is destined to appear with Christ in glory sometime after death is abolished.
“Be
disposed to that which is above, not to that on the earth, for
you died, and your life is hid together with Christ in God. Whenever Christ, our Life, should be manifested, then
you also shall be manifested together with Him in glory.” (Colossians
3:2-4)
I used to get angry at those who condemn people not in their group to hell, but now I see that the grace of God is even greater than that sin.
“For even
as, through the disobedience of the one man, the many were constituted sinners,
thus also, through the obedience of the One, the many shall be constituted just.
Yet law came in by the way, that the offense should be increasing. Yet where
sin increases, grace superexceeds, that, even as sin reigns in death,
thus Grace also should be reigning through righteousness, for life eonian,
through Jesus Christ, our Lord.” (Romans 5:19-21)
The wisdom of the religious world "is stupidity with God."