WHEN HELL FREEZES OVER

"Why does there even have to be a Hell? Why can’t God just make those He hates disappear? The answer is simple: if he did that, then there would be no incentive to follow his law, and the evil would get off the hook ..."—

I read this statement off of some Christian site and I found that I just could not let this statement go without some comment on it.
How can any so called Christian believe that hell is an incentive to be good or to believe in Jesus? If a Christian is only a Christian because he or she is afraid of Hell, then my friend they have missed the point. The bible states that we love God because God loved us first, we love God because God loves us as we are, but love us so much that He will not let us remain as we are when we come to Him through His Son Jesus Christ, who I might add is the only door way to God.
Is prison an incentive for people to be good and obey the law? So far I have not found that to be the case . Prisons are so full now that they are having trouble enough trying to find places to put the criminals. The death penalty , is it an incentive for people not to commit murder? So far it has not done a good job of it.
Do Christians really believe there is in fact a Hell as described by Hell fire preachers and the Catholic church? If people truly believed in this fallacy they would be knocking down the doors of every person trying to convince them of their fate. This my friend is not happening.Hell as we have been taught does not exist . PERIOD!!
No one is in Hell now, no one has been judged yet, no one is being punished after they have died, in fire and brimstone now .What kind of God do they worship any way? A God that hideous who will torture people before the Judgement day, and a God that will torture all who refuse to believe in Him for all eternity, is frankly not the God of the Bible, PERIOD.
""Hell" Is Not an Old Testament doctrine:
Popular myth : Hell is an established Biblical doctrine that is in the Bible from start to finish. This is not true! Two thirds of the Bible (the Old Testament) does not mention Hell at all. ("Sheol," the Old Testament word that is sometimes translated as Hell, only means "grave" by definition, and it is where everyone in the Old Testament went when they died--good or evil, Jew or Gentile). Thus the Old Testament does not contain the concept of Hell!
Think about it...
If Hell is real, why didn't God make that warning plain right at the beginning of the Bible? God said the penalty for eating of the tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was death- -not "eternal life" in fire and brimstone.
If Hell is real, why wasn't Cain warned about it, or Sodom and Gomorrah , or any of those who committed the earliest recorded "sins?"
If Hell is real why didn't Moses warn about this fate in the Ten Commandments or the Mosaic Covenant consisting of over 600 laws, ordinances, and warnings? The Mosaic Law simply stated blessings and cursings in this lifetime.
If Hell is real, why are its roots in paganism, rather than the Bible? Many nations surrounding Israel in the Old Testament believed in Hell-like punishment in the afterlife, for they served bloodthirsty and evil "gods," while Israel simply taught the grave (sheol) and a hope of a resurrection. If Hell is real, why was the revelation of it first given to pagan nations, instead of God's covenant people? Did God expect Israel to learn about the afterlife from the Pagan Gentiles? If so, why did He repeatedly warn Israel to not learn of their ways?
If Hell is real, why did God tell the Jews that burning their children alive in the fire to the false god Molech, (in the valley of Gehenna ) was so detestable to Him? God said that such a thing "never even entered His mind" (Jer. 32:35). How could God say such a thing to Israel , if He has plans to burn alive a good majority of His own creation in a spiritual and eternal Gehenna of His own making?
**FACT: The King James Bible erroneously translates the word "Sheol" as Hell a total of 31 times in the Old Testament, thus setting a foundation for that doctrine in the New Testament as well as the majority of Bible translations to follow the KJV. Even so, most new translations have completely eliminated Hell from the Old Testament, as honest and better scholarship has demanded. The Jewish version of the Old Testament (the Tanakh) has no concept of Hell in it. The importance of this fact cannot be over-emphasized. If a doctrine does not appear as seed form in the books of the Law, the Prophets and the Psalms, it cannot fairly be taught as a major biblical doctrine, if indeed it can be taught as biblical at all! Hell Is Not a New Testament Doctrine:
Popular myth: Jesus spoke of Hell more than He did of Heaven. This is not true! Jesus warned the Jews many times of impending destruction, both nationally and individually. He used several different terms to refer to punishment/destruction, some of which were erroneously translated as the same word, "Hell" by Bible translators. I do not deny that God will indeed judge the whole world, nor do I wish to make light of His judgments. I am challenging the belief that His judgment on sin and unbelief is eternal torment/Hell and never-ending punishing . Certainly, Jesus spent a lot of his ministry warning people to repent or reap the consequences, (particularly "Gehenna.") But could we be reading more into His warnings than He originally intended?
Since the concept of Hell doesn't exist in the Old Testament, how could Jesus and his disciples teach that salvation was deliverance from a place that is not even found in their Scriptures? And if He was introducing the subject for the first time, why did He do it so casually, as though His listeners already understood what He was talking about? If Hell is real how could the Apostle Paul (who was especially commissioned by God to preach the gospel to the nations) say that he had declared the entire counsel of God (Acts 20:27), when indeed he never warned of "Hell" in any of his letters? If Hell is real, wouldn't Paul, of all people, warn of it repeatedly?
Hell Contradicts The Work of the Messiah:
Popular myth: Jesus came to save the sinner from his destination of everlasting Hell. Not exactly true! Hell was never a place that the Jews were hoping to be saved from, since they didn't even believe in it! But they did need to be saved from their sins and consequences of them; namely death. Jesus came as the Anointed One to fulfill all of God's plan for the earth-that through Him might come the salvation, deliverance of sin, peace, kingdom of God and all that God had promised through the Old Testament scriptures.

Traditional teaching among Christians is that the benefits of Christ's sacrifice are only available to those who believe. "God doesn't send people to hell -- people send themselves to hell by choosing to reject the Christ's loving sacrifice on their behalf." Or to paraphrase C. S. Lewis, "hell is the place for people who get what they want -- and what they want is a life apart from God."
(Quoting from HELL FIRE, A Twisted Truth Untangled, by Joe Crews) "There are two extreme views in current circulation concerning the punishment of the wicked. One is Universalism, which contends that God is too good to allow anyone to be lost. The other is the awful doctrine of endless torment which would perpetuate for all eternity a dark abyss of anguish and suffering. Both are wrong. The truth lies in between. God will punish the wicked according to their works, but He will not immortalized evil in the process" by keeping evil men and women alive forever. How many truly honest souls have been turned away from God because of their revulsion at this misinterpretation of His character? They cannot love someone who would ... keep evil people in endless torment with no purpose in view. ... Only a vindictive spirit of revenge could be served by such an unspeakable arrangement We know from Scripture that God is not like that. He is a God of Love (but also a God of righteousness and judgment). The Bible tells us that pain and death will be done away with, along with the old earth and heavens.

If Hell is a place that the unbelievers go and are tormented for ever then we have to conclude that the bible must be wrong for it states that both death and Hell will be destroyed, so how can people be in hell forever?
Death and hell will not be immortalized forever. They will cease to exist when they are destroyed in the lake of fire. The last enemy that will be abolished is death. (1 Corinthians 15: 26) Then death and Hell were thrown into the Lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. (Revelation 20: 14) Finally, this is when hell truly freezes over.
Of all that Jesus taught about hell, the most important thing is that Jesus is the solution to the problem. In him, there is no condemnation (Romans 8:1). He is the way, the truth and the life eternal.The bible states very plainly what the punishment of sin is, and that is DEATH. "The soul that sins IT shall die."Ezekiel 18 is not really a tough chapter at all to the person who understands the difference between eternal life and physical life. When God said through Ezekiel that "the soul that sins shall die" (vv. 13, 18, 20), He meant just that. That is, the more one sins, the more one comes under God's judgment and the more likely it is that he or she will die. This same principle is restated in the New Testament as well (e.g.,James 1:15, 21). The wages of sin is death. While the believer escapes the eternal death which is part of sin's wages, the believer does not escape temporal death which comes from sin.
For the following 1,000 years,After Jesus the Messiah returns, God’s government will be administered across the world, bringing peace and prosperity for all (Isa. 9:7). Then will come the second resurrection, in which every man, woman and child who has ever lived—but who had not yet received an opportunity for salvation—will be brought back to physical existence (Ezek. 37:5; Rev. 20:12-13). All will be given a chance to learn God’s way of life and to overcome the way of sin. Those who do will be given the precious opportunity to change to immortality. Those who chose not to will not be given eternal life. My belief is that most will choose life.