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Why would a loving God allow someone to be tortured eternally? I wouldn't, and surely I am more of a jerk than God.
As I've written several times, I find belief in Hell (by which I mean a place of eternal torture) simply fascinating. In no other area are people so willing to accept the suffering and torment of other people.
I've heard a lot of different defenses by people who believe in a place of eternal torture. One reason they often give is that God is perfectly just and fair, and in turn, some people must suffer for their sins, be it their behavior or their specific beliefs. To not give this option would be paramount to God limiting free will. Sure, God wants you to be in Heaven, but Hell (pun intended), it is your choice and His hands are tied if you choose to deny Him!
Really? So you really think this ultra-loving God (presumably) is going to be like, "yeah you died. I kind of don't have time for you to repent now. It is too bad, because we could've had something here."
Why would God's love, or ability to accept forgiveness or whatever, end when someone dies? What if someone was about to "ask forgiveness" and dies in the process? Does God go, "too bad, too sad?" And, doesn't limiting the ability to be with God eternally to a pre-death choice also limit people's free will?
And further, when is eternal torment ever just? I think even the most retribution hungry among us would agree that one lifetime of mistakes could rarely (if not never) justify eternal suffering. So why are people so quick to think people will be tortured eternally?
It's like if a kid stole a bike from his friend, and his dad sent him to his room forever, and without video games, tv, dinner, I-pod, or anything else.
Or wait, that actually isn't as cruel (sorry, but it is cruel) as thinking a lot, lot, lot of people are going to be tortured forever in a pit of fire because of having different beliefs than another group (that are equally guessing about God. None of us know anything for sure when it comes to this). Spending time in a room isn't exactly equatable to eternal torture.
If there is a place of torment when we die, for some of us at least, then I highly doubt God would not give people a chance to leave this place once they have learned whatever lesson or repented. I would, and surely I am more of a jerk than God.
