As a Christian, I’d love to respond to your concerns! Sorry if this is weird, but I just really have been touched by God’s love in my life and felt like I should help explain.
Backstory time! God created humans because he wants to have a family. He is an all-loving God who wants to share his power. God created us with a beautiful gift of free will, so we could chose to love him or not. While God is all-loving, he is also completely just. Imagine a Father who loved his children, but never punished them. Picture a young child hitting or even murdering his brother, and the Father staying silent. That wouldn’t be right! So God has to be just and have punishments for evil.
God cannot tolerate evil since he must be all-just. When humans chose by themselves to commit evil, there had to be a separation from God. By choosing evil over God, humans committed to eternity away from him. Hell isn’t necessarily a burning pit preachers often describe it as. While there is figurative language about flames, many believe Hell is simply an eternal absence from God. Eternal absence from his love. Which, to me, who would not be alive today if not for the infinite love of God, is unimaginable!!
It is our choice to commit evil or “temporary infractions”. We make the choice. However, since God is just and loving, he is also forgiving. God came in the form of man as Jesus to chose Love over Evil. When he died for those three days, he was conquering death. He rose, so that we too could rise and escape our well-deserved punishment. Jesus literally conquered death to bring us life!
He paid the price for me, for you, for everyone! I could never imagine getting close to being perfect. I mess up all the time. I’m rude to my parents, my friends. I say hurtful things to my boyfriend. I still will face punishment in the form of worldly results that can hurt me and the people I have hurt. However through the love of God, there is a way of forgiveness to wash my sins away. I don’t have to be perfect, because God was perfect for me.
Like, the fact that I mess up so much, and God still loved me enough to die for me just blows my mind every day. It’s crazy. I’ve been through a lot of abuse in the past, but I have slowly been able to recover knowing that I will always be loved by God. And you are loved by him too!