I don't understand why a God would allow souls to be tortured eternally in hell. Can someone explain why?

That's because He doesn't ....we put ourselves there.

If that's a little hard to understand, think of an alcoholic ...or someone with lung cancer. A doctor tells them the rules of life ....either quit the ugly habit of drinking or smoking, or die an agonizing death. Yet the addict does not quit. He tells his wife "sorry, I guess I love my habit too much" ....and continues his habit to the grave.

The same thing is with the rules of Heaven. God is the "doctor" that cares about our eternal "health" and warns that our sinful "habits" may cause agony for us in the end. But some people (I guess) love the life of sin too much. And "choose" those consequences in spite of what those consequences are.

Only the evil can explain it. Personally, I loved the preacher who was asked on TV if he believed in Hell; his answer was, "Yes. But I also believe that because God is infinite in his mercy there is no one there."

I've been a bible believing Christian for many years and believe that it is only through the sacrificial blood ofJesus Christ that our sins are paid for. Without the blood of Christ there is no sacrifice for sin. when we stand before God one day in judgement we will either be standing on the foundation of the blood of christ or standing on a pile of our own sins that a loving but righteous and just God must punish. That punishment the bible says is hell and can be interpreted a number of ways. I have little doubt Jesus is the son of God however at this point my definition of hell is basically separation from God forever. Im going to reserve judgment on what hell is in detail, because it is not fully clear. The important thing is to tell people that whether it is a conscious separation or not you dont need to go there. God through Jesus Christ has paid the ultimate price to keep you from hell. How you respond to Jesus Christ will determine your eternal destiny. John 1:12

Once you believe that hell exists, you can be motivated to commit the worst atrocities as long as somebody has you convinced that you can avoid hell that way. The idea of hell and eternal damnation, I've come to believe, is an infection vector for a higly contagious form of mental illness.

We need to stop with the idea of people being tortured in hell. Personally, I have never believed that and and I never will. I am a former minister and I believe the church must grow up or become irrelevant. It's a lot easier to blab on ad nauseum about hell, lakes of fire, fear, and eternal torture, than it is to go out into the world and show the true good news by actions. Words are so cheap... Actions matter.

The threat of "hell" only exists in the mind of the religiously retarded.

Cults use scare tactics to ensure obedience and to prevent people from leaving the cult. Once people stop being scared of the fictions and threats, and realize that there is no danger in not obeying, it's very easy to leave a cult.

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Yawn. Bigtwit just threatened to have his "big brother" come and beat me up. How pathetic. How religiously retarded.

There is a slight misconception here, souls are not punished eternally in hell. Hell is only temporary, however, at the Great White Throne Judgment Christ will take Death, Hell, and all those who were in Hell and cast them into the Lake of Fire for their eternal punishment.

But as for your question, why would God allow it? The answer is because God has given us free will and wants us to turn to him through Christ because we want to. Those who reject Christ follow the devil and therefore choose to go where God is sending him and the angels that rebelled with him, which is the Lake of Fire.

It wouldn't. Thus the Christian God is a lie.

I'll try to explain it in the way that I was made to understand. I'm not quite qualified, unfortunately, but here goes. The devil chose to go against God, and so he was cast down into his own place, Hell- keep in mind, the devil CHOSE to disobey. All evil is the devil's work, the devil's nature. Man has a choice to either fall for or deny evil- it's called free will. We also have the free will to do good deeds and to be near God. So really, we are the ones who choose our fates, we can doom ourselves by being selfish and evil and unloving towards others and by turning away from God forever.

God does NOT want everyone to go to Hell. He loves all of us very much and even sent a part of Him (His only Son) to give us an easier shot at heaven, but like a parent cannot control their children like puppets, we as God's children must ultimately make our own decisions on our fate.

I'm not one of those Christians who says the this person or that person is going to hell. The thing is, only God knows what is in our hearts, so only He knows when we are sorry for our sins and not doing them to be and spread evil. And we all fall short of the glory of the one who beautifully and wonderfully made us. That's why Jesus came down, because our sins have a chance of being forgiven if we are truly sorry for them. So we have a very simple way to come to God- through His Son, who also loves us dearly.

I'd be happy to try to answer anything else pertaining to this the best I can, but again, I'm no expert! Peace!

If you are too stupid to still believe in god that way then you are beyond help anyway, are you not?
Give it say an other century and all religions shall have been wiped out following a whole series of legal cases in which many people raised in religions take legal action for psychological abuse - just watch the next decade!