Herein is the answer.
Maybe this is the wrong question and so our answer misses the point and we misunderstand God purpose.
First God is love, everything thing He purposes is good. Now we can guess or we can go to what He says.
1John 4:8
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
James 1:17
Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning.
He does not change He is always good.
But He also is a God of righteousness so justice is required. That is why He sent His son Jesus Christ.
First if you really love someone you have to give them free will. For controlling someone is not better then having a servant or maybe a robot. In other words you give out love in hope that loves comes back. You don't force others to love you.
So God gave Adam and Eve His Word and one command. Freely eat of all the trees but one.
This would give them the free will to obey and would show trust and love for God their Father. God knew if they disobeyed that it would bring hurt and damage to themselves and their relationship (sin). If they could not have obeyed by free will then they would be not much different then robots forced to do what is right but God said they had a choice.
They chose to disobey by free will disavowing God's love and care for them. They did not trust God's integrity fully or return the love He showed to them in the end.
Now God could have left us up for wrath (not hell, as hell is Biblically the grave, gravedom, the state of the dead) as you put it. Would it be love to leave us to wrath or hell?
I think we agree here NO it would not.
So he makes a way back to Him that also involves free will. This plan involved Jesus Christ His son the redeemer.
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
Yes God hates sin but He loves the sinner.
These two verse explain that.
Rom 5:8 But Commended his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Ephesians 2:4
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
So God's perfect love plan gives us now the free will to come back to HIm and in His love.
This plan of sending His son Jesus Christ and him fulfilling it (by free will) is so we can be restored to Him as Adam and Eve were in the beginning before they disobeyed (distrusted God, did not return His love)
People don't go to wrath or hell because God does not love them, they go because they reject His love plan to redeem and restore us to Himself.
So if i say I don't like His plan really I'm making my own God and making myself my own God.
If we had been the ones in the garden of Eden we would have done the same, I think you would have to agree if you think this through.
So God is not sending us to wrath or hell. He sent us His son to give us life. But if we also choose to disavow, distrust His love to us. Then we are doing the same thing Adam and Eve did.
We distrust His love and integrity for us by rejecting the free gift of the life His son came to give us.
This should help make this so clear no one misses it. That is His free love offering / gift, if we don't want to. He is offering us the life, liberty, freedom and love we really want not some kind of religious bondage or trip.
He loves us so much he was willing to pay the highest price so we could come back to Him if we really wanted to.
This is real, genuine love.
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