A Sobering Thought

"Suppose it were offered to the father of three children to take his choice whether two should be received into heaven and one condemned to hell, or the whole should be annihilated in death. What would a parent say? Where is the father who would dare to secure the bliss of two children at the cost of the endless misery of one? Which of the family would he select as the victim, whose undying pain should secure his brother's immortal joy? Is there any one living who would not suffer himself and his children to sink back again into nothingness, rather than purchase heaven at such a price? Now, if so, if we should so act in the case of our own children, we are bound morally to make the same choice with respect to every one. No moral being would consent to purchase eternal happiness at the price of another's eternal woe. Hence it follows that a future life, on the popular view, is an evil to the human race, not to the wicked, but to all. For if annihilation of the whole race should be tendered as the alternative, no moral being could, as has been shown, refuse to accept it." - BARLOW, Eternal Punishment.

How can it be said that God the Father, whose very essence is agape love, has planned such an unloving act that has no redeeming good whatever?

What attribute in man would cause him to cling to such a belief in the face of the powerful Scriptural evidence against it? What attribute in man would cause him to refuse to view the evidence against eternal damnation dogma? What attribute would cause one to become agitated and irritated when confronted with biblical evidence against the prevailing, but awful belief?

What???