[Joshua]

As I have been reading I came accross an idea that explains one reason why people choose Hell over God. There are many self-righteous, self-absorbed people (narcissistic if you will) who've rejected God their whole lives. There is this mentality that they want their own way and it,s either my way or the highway. I have run into this a lot with members of different cult groups especially the leadership of these kinds of groups. Now, picture this, You are in a room with somebody who is extremely attractive, very good looking, and a lot smarter than you. In a social type situation, people want to listen to this person, not you. Add to that the idea that you don't really care for this individual but you find yourself locked in this room with this situation going on around you 24 hours a day for fourty years. Would you consider this a difficult situation? You would try to get out of this kind of situation if you could I imagine. Take this situation and multiply it by 100,000 and you might get a glimps of what God is like. For a self-absorbed, narcissistic person would Heaven be more like Hell? God is the most beautiful, intelligent, morally pure being ever. If people are not willing to fall head over heels in love with him then being in Gods presents, doing the kinds of things that many of the other people around him would be doing would become overwhelmingly difficult. This has given me a little bit of insight as to why people don't choose God and would rather choose Hell. Not smart in my oppinion but it happens never the less. Your comments and ideas on this are eagerly welcomed.