Do I believe Atheists are going to hell?

[SteveII]

So, God does not sentence you to hell. It is an automatic consequence for not freely choosing the option provided.

Ah, but if your god created the place, it is fully responsible in perpetuity for the suffering that occurs there.  This is why I deem all hell-creating gods to be unworthy of respect.

But if a place had to be created that was separate from God as a result of our sins in light of God's essential (as in could not have been any other way) perfect holiness/justice, then who is responsible for such a place existing? Your argument rests on "in could have been set up differently". It is far from clear that between God's perfect holiness/justice, our lack of holiness, our free will, and our eternal souls that another system was possible.

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And just how would anyone know any of that, Steve?

The doctrines come from assembling the information we have in the Bible into a systematic, internally consistent framework.