How/why can a loving and righteous God allow people to go to hell?

Look around you, Jason.  Look at the things you can touch...the computer
screen, your clothes, your textbooks, your money, the people around you, the
earth....one day, it will all be gone.  What is seen is temporary and what is
unseen is not temporary (i.e. permanent).  Each person has a soul that we
cannot see and the soul is permanent.  I cannot literally see God, but God is
permanent.  The things of this world...the things that are seen....will pass
away.  The things not of this world...the things unseen....will remain.  The
things that are unseen refer to the spiritual realm.  When people die, the part
of them that is seen...the flesh...will decay and pass away, but the soul will
continue in existance.  The soul is part of the spiritual realm and whether the
end result for one is Heaven or hell, the existance of the soul is eternal
(either eternal life with God or eternal separation from God).  The world we
see with our finite eyes of flesh is finite.  The spiritual realm that we do
not see is infinite.  When one commits a wrong here in the finite world, the 
wrong is finite and the punishment is finite (when a guy on death row gets the 
chair, it isn't a perpetual process...it starts, it happens, it ends).  When
one commits a wrong in the infinite world (the spiritual realm), the wrong is
infinite and the punishment is infinite.  Everything in the spiritual realm is
infinite!  You may be wondering how one commits a wrong in the
eternal/spiritual realm....well Mark 3:29 mentions it.  When one knows of the
truth of Jesus Christ and doesn't accept Christ and leaves the finite world
(dies) in that status and enters the infinite/eternal/spiritual realm, then
that crime has entered with that soul into the spiritual realm constituting an
infinite crime which results in infinite punishment.  Nothing in the spiritual
realm is temporary.


--James, the Beacon Deacon