If God paid for everyone's sins, on what basis does He send people to hell?
He tells us this when he tells nicodemus how to be born again
14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life.
here he uses the example of moses and the serpent. Everyone who was bitten had to make a choice. Trust God through mpses and look up in faith and live, or in unbelief do not look up and die..
The whole world is bitten by the curse of death.. The ones who look up at christ in belief will live, the ones who do not in unbelief will die.
Jesus continues to prove this point
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.
18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
1. he died for the world. The whole world is bitten by the curse
2. Those who believe will not die, but will live (in this case, their life will be forever)
he who believes is not condemned,
He who DOES NOT BELIEVE is CONDEMNED ALREADY
Jesus did not die for the sin of unbelief or rejecting the gospel