You know who else decided to punish people for not believing in Christ?

Hitler.

The word of God that has no supporting evidence outside of itself! The Qu'ran also claims to be the only word of God; give me proof that the Bible has a higher claim, other than simple fate. If we had to follow the Bible, God would give us a sign that it was the right way. Otherwise, it's just a random draw on the salvation slot machine.

Your argument makes sense, except that that's not how the Bible sees it. According to the Bible, not only did Hitler go to Hell, but so did Anne Frank and the other millions of Jewish nonbelievers who he murdered in the Holocaust. So did Gandhi, a Hindu, and so did so many other great men and women guilty of nothing but the unforgivable crime of not believing in Jesus Christ.

And that seems very selfish of our "loving" God, doesn't it? He will only save us if WE love HIM. If HE loves US, wouldn't he save us regardless? A mortal parent loves their child unconditionally, so wouldn't a perfect being like God, often called a parent of his many human children, take UNCONDITIONAL love to an extreme?

If you really believe that then you are either extremely apathetic or you spend your days feeling miserable and helpless as every non-baptized person around you is, you believe, cast into eternal torment by a supposedly "loving" God; in either case, I feel sorry for you and the misery in which you live this one life you have.

A benevolent God would love unconditionally regardless of belief, especially in a world like ours where people are constantly influenced by atheistic ideas. Your idea of God is not benevolent, and if that god is THE God then he is unworthy of our love.

And why are we all guilty? Because our ancestors ate fruit from a tree and committed a crime that was only a crime because God told them not to, for no reason other than to test their faithfulness? And now because our ancient ancestors did that even we who never do much as steal a piece of candy as small children are required to believe in the sacrifice of Christ or else burn for the supposed sin of someone else, especially if we DO steal a piece of candy, or lie to our parents, or, God forbid, fall in love with someone who just so happens to be of the same sex, or do any other number of things that can only be called evil in the minds of the writers of the Bible who I can only assume were some of the most apathetic persons to ever live? Even if we do make a truly terrible mistake it is all a part of being human. If God loved us but has to send us to Hell because we make some wrong choices in our lives, he wouldn't let us make those choices to begin with

Exactly what I'm trying to say! It's very different when a human judge punishes a murderer with prison or even execution; that is fair. But can it be called fair to ETERNALLY punish for anything? I'm not saying that people like Hitler got a free pass into Heaven, but temporary "hells" like Purgatory are far more just in the mind of any rational being.

Please, everyone has irrational fear. You don't have to believe something is possible to be afraid of it. And if God doesn't WANT to send people to Hell, why does he? He's God, he can do whatever he wants. There are people on this Earth, fail able humans like you and me, who love all people unconditionally, even if they don't deserve it. People like Gandhi, who wasn't a Christian. Can you really tell me that any mortal man can be more accepting and loving than God? Because that's what your telling me, that God is more loving than anyone yet has less empathy than even the average person.

Even if you are right, we aren't Adam and Eve. It's the same idea as saying all Jews will go to Hell because Jews executed Jesus. THEY'RE NOT THE SAME PEOPLE, so why would we be punished for something our ancestors did? That's just complete bull, it really is.