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"The bible states clearly that people go to Hell regardless of guilt."
ROMANS
6:23
"For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord"
If it were not so sad and serious a matter it would be laughable that you cannot understand a simple sentence. Wages are what you earn and what you have a right to demand. When you demand justice from an employer, you get what you deserve; what you have earned. Do you follow me so far?
Now if the employer wants to give you something you have not earned that is considered a gift, which is just another way of saying it is grace. You cannot demand grace. I suppose you could do what little children do and hold your breath until you turn blue in an attempt to extort a gift but then it would no longer be a gift.
Now who has earned eternal life; and what would it take to do so? the answer is that no person except Jesus Christ has ever lived a sinless life. Every other human being who has ever lived has failed to live the kind of righteous life that God requires. this is the gist of the first three chapters of Romans.
Message 20684635
"If God is good that must mean they are guilty--Right? But guilty of what? The bible says they will go to Hell for exercising freedom of religion. So the bible mocks the highest value that humanity has come to embrace as a dignity, as a freedom, and as a consummate good--the right to think."
Those who as you say exercise their freedom to ignore what they know is intuitively right from Creation, Conscience, and what they have been told through the gospel (Good News) about Jesus Christ are simply left to face the consequences of their free choices. In one sense you can freely choose to rob a bank, but you cannot choose the consequences of that action. You are free to think whatever you want but thinking always results in actions and wrong actions are what make a person guilty. You and I will receive justice for the things we have freely chosen to do, or we will receive the free gift that is offered to you even now through the Christ's vicarious sacrifice of Himself.
"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us.
We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.
God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God. 2 Cor 5:
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