God loves everyone. Are we not taught thus? And he is not willing that any should perish but that all should have eternal life. Did not Jesus himself say this?  

The best estimate I can find suggests that throughout history and up until this very day, approximately 100 billion individuals who could rightly be called homosapiens have lived. Most of these have not been Christians, indeed, the vast majority have not. For most it wasn’t even an option. Most people alive today are not Christians. 

But if what we’ve been taught about God is true and if what we think on heaven and hell is correct, then all these non-Christians, every one, is in or will be in Hell. Forever. 

Jesus went looking for the lost sheep but he didn’t find it.

The widow never did recover her two lost coins.

The prodigal son never made it home. 

God loves them, yet he lost them. 90 plus billion souls forever beyond his reach, forever dying, forever dead, and there is no hope.

But is that the Gospel message? Is the message that there is no hope? That (from a simple numbers standpoint) death and evil win.  Must we answer the psalmist with: “Yes, unfortunately the arm of the Lord is too short to save.”

Or do we have a Savior who can overcome death? Do we have a redeemer greater than the power of our sin?

The god preached from the pulpit today is powerless to save his creation. It is taught that he will burn it, tear it down, destroy it all, and start anew. But the God revealed in Christ is not the destroyer god, but the redeemer God, the one who is making all things new. And for him death is nothing for he has already beaten it.