text: 1. You know no more than I do. It's a logical fallacy to say "There are things we cannot understand and I understand them."
  2. It probably feels like a choice but it's more akin to a herd of lemmings falling off a cliff. 
  3. Don't consider them ad hominems against God, consider them ad hominems against what I see as a rather vile twisting of God into a way for the powerful to control the masses. 
  
  Hell is such a vague concept in the Bible. Yet it's such a certain permanent thing in Christianity. Why is that?
  
  The bible was canonized 300 years after the death of Christ based on writings that happened anywhere from 30-40 years after his death. It's a hodgepodge of whatever various groups at the time decided was canon. Which version of the Bible is as real as it gets? Which gospel? I'm not suggesting throw the whole thing away. I'm just saying I cared a lot but never got any satisfactory answers to these questions just "trust that those guys knew and God was guiding them."