God wants all people to be saved.
God is completely in control of salvation.
And yet, some people wind up in hell for eternity.
These three simple propositions, each drawing on substantial Biblical support, create a logical conundrum. Arminians solve it by saying God is not completely in control of salvation. Calvinists solve it by saying God does not want all people to be saved. And Universalists solve it by saying no one winds up in hell for eternity. Although they are historically in the minority (for good reasons), the Universalist is really asking how a Good and Powerful God can allow anyone to be in hell forever. It’s a really good question.
But it’s worth noting that it’s really just the same as another, much more well-known question: How can a Good and Powerful God make a world full of evil? The problem of hell, therefore, is really just another form of the problem of evil. And if we can learn how to live theologically with an evil world made by a perfect God, perhaps we can also learn how to live theologically with an eternal hell made by Him too.
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