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Thief on the cross was never baptized. Underneath all the objections, your real problem is you have a naive and sugary view of the goodness of men, and a low view of sin. These lead inexorably to your lugubrious protests of God being "unfair" as some sort of eternal dungeonmaster, gleefully extracting eternal screams of pain from the relatively innocent, whose "only" crime is either not hearing of Christ or "rejecting" him in some kind of moral neutrality.

These are unbiblical pictures of men, God, and hell, and until you are willing to give them up, you will go on consoling yourself that you have the moral high ground and will retreat from this thread and other interactions having lied to yourself until you can self righteously announce (again?) that "I could never believe in such an awful God."

I say this, because you persist in niggling over the same points which have been addressed (some in posts directly to you), refuting the false premises you keep relying on, specifically the idea that the eternal state of damned people resides in the unwillingness of God to accept repentance, rather than the eternal unwillingness of men to repent. Men go to hell because they CHOOSE to do so, and they CHOOSE to do such a horrible and stupid thing because it appears better (or more desireable) than to surrender their pride, acknowledge the justice of God, and ask for His mercy, which He freely offers in Christ. Their choice throughout eternity is simply an affirmation of the same choice they make now. You seem to be flabbergasted by the idea that men would knowingly do such a thing for eternity in hell, which (again) shows that you have a very naive view of the state of the human heart in its sin.