Do you believe people choose to go to hell by not listening to God?

I've heard people say that. To me that'd be like saying that if a husband tells his wife if she cheats he'll kill her, and she doesn't listen and cheats anyway. He finds out and kills her like he said he would, and it was her choice to die cause she knew that would happen if she did cheat.
Take that situation but instead of husband it'd be God, instead of cheating it'd be sinning, and instead of dying it'd be going to hell forever.
Only difference is God is perfect so with him in place of the husband it'd be holy and just.

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LeopoldBloom · M

It's incorrect to say that people don't listen to God if they don't believe he exists. It would be like saying people who don't leave their teeth under their pillow are not listening to the Tooth Fairy. In your example, the wife knows her husband exists and hears him threatening her, so it's not the same thing.

A better example would be a woman who was married to a man without her knowledge (like, the man "married" her in a ceremony she wasn't told about and didn't attend) and made his threat when he was in a different city, so she couldn't hear him. In that case, you can't blame the wife for "cheating" because she didn't know she was married and didn't hear the man's warning. So assuming God exists, it's unrealistic for him to send people to hell for not listening to him when they don't know he exists and aren't aware that he's giving them a choice.