Help for reconciling God and the concept of Hell

I just finished teaching through a session on how a loving God can "send" people to Hell. You can view the presentation below and get the class handout notes here. The two key areas to get a firm grip on this issue are (1) understanding the distinction between the antecedent and consequent will of God, and (2) understanding the distinction between "want" and "will". When you get a handle on those two areas, the rest falls into place.

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It can get downright amazing sometimes to see/hear the things that skeptics of Christianity come up with. I came across an article by William Lane Craig that contained a blurb about a debate he had with a skeptic (with a Ph.D.) regarding the resurrection and his explanation for it:

A few years ago I had debate on the resurrection with a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who had written his doctoral dissertation on the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus. He did not deny the facts of Jesus' honorable burial, the empty tomb, his resurrection appearances, or the origin of the disciples’ faith. Rather his only recourse way to try to explain them away by some new theory. So he argued that Jesus must have had an unknown, identical twin brother who was separated from him at birth, and who showed up in Jerusalem at the time of the crucifixion, stole Jesus’s body, and then showed himself to the disciples, leading them to mistakenly infer that Jesus rose from the dead. I won’t bother you with how I went about refuting the theory; but I think this example is instructive because it shows to
what desperate lengths the skeptic has to go to avoid the resurrection of Jesus. In fact, the evidence is so good that one of the world's leading Jewish theologians, the late Pinchas Lapide, declared himself convinced on the basis of the evidence that the God of Israel raised Jesus from the dead.

I have to admit - that's a new one for me! Again, when you honestly approach and examine the evidence for Christianity, it takes far more 'faith' to reject it and believe in anything else.