Dutch Uncle
* Tertia Optio * Defend the Constitution
Hell may well be a physical place and it may well be quite full of torture but that torture will be the creation of the people who end up there. The devil doesn't torture people in hell he doesn't care that much. He just needs people to be slaves to their own desires so they end up in hell where they suffer the pains of their freely chosen actions. That's the funniest part he's a torturer that doesn't do many torturing.
Again hell might be real but the tortures are real. This all touches on another whacky protestant belief that isn't biblical, sola fide.
It doesn't make sense since 1) God made us flawed and 2) an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-merciful God wouldn't do that.
All that makes sense would be that Hell is a choice; the choice to live in the darkness or to live in the light of goodness, of Godliness. Isn't that the entire purpose of Free Will? To have choices? To live, grow and change one's mind?
Consider drug addicts? Whose fault is that? God's or the addicts? Who is torturing them? God or they themselves? Whose choice is it for them to remain addicts? God or they themselves?
Hell might be real and Hell might involve torture but I strongly doubt God is the one responsible for anyone being there.