[plain talk]

For sinners to be consigned to anything less than the horrors of eternal punishment would be a miscarriage of justice.

Really? Does anyone really think like that? Just curious. God made us, right? God made imperfect sinful creatures with free will. I can understand that we have no business spending eternity with God if we don't even accept that He exists. I get that. But I have never understood people that believe sinful people SHOULD be tortured (not just separated from God) but tortured for eternity.

I don't think any of us have a clue how any of this works and best leave the details in the hands of God.

[Hebrews 11:6]

Perhaps this will help clarify it. Those who choose to refuse God still exist, and He honors their choice by sending them somewhere He is not. But because He continues to love them, He doesn't want them to be attacked by the other residents--yet they don't want Him there to protect them. So, He surrounds each one by just enough fire to prevent them from breaking through to their neighbors--Hitler has a roaring conflagration around him, while dear old unbelieving Aunt Minnie needs just a few hot coals. The amount of fire is determined by their character, so it's completely just. They've earned it, but they haven't earned any more.

[onedoug]

I don't think any of us have a clue how any of this works and best leave the details in the hands of God.

Aside from maintaining a belief in God, trying to live a Godly life, and bearing in mind the admonitions of Deuteronomy 4:19 & Malachi 1:11, I think you're absolutely right.

[Greetings_Puny_Humans]

God made imperfect sinful creatures with free will.

Go made man upright, but he fell in Adam and thus perished:

Ecc_7:29 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

1Co_15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

I get that. But I have never understood people that believe sinful people SHOULD be tortured (not just separated from God) but tortured for eternity.

Men are evil and so, in all fairness, they can't complain what God chooses to do.

[metmom]

But I have never understood people that believe sinful people SHOULD be tortured (not just separated from God) but tortured for eternity.

What a misrepresentation of God to say that He TORTURES people for not believing.

He's not some kind of sadist who is torturing people for not believing like He's mad or something.

Hell is what it is and people go there of their own volition.

Actually, for someone who rejects God, being in His presence unprotected would probably seem a lot like hell anyway.

God is a consuming fire and sin cannot remain in His holy pureness.