Could God be this Cruel?

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

...I think of descriptions of Hell.  Eternal torture, pain and suffering.

Col 3:1 "...set your hearts on things above, where Christ is seated at the right hand of God."

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Hell is eternal death, not eternal dying, just as heaven is eternal life, not eternal living. Big distinctions.

Revelation 20:10 And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Rev 14:9 If anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on the forehead or on the hand, 10 he, too, will drink of the wine of God’s fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath. He will be tormented with burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb. 11 And the smoke of their torment rises for ever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or for anyone who receives the mark of his name.”

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Using Revelation as evidence on the nature of hell is a bit...problematic.

well, if you think Revelation needs a second witness, then will Christ do as a witness?

Mat 25:41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.'"

so, both Revelation and Jesus say the cursed will go down into the same fire the devil and demons will go into.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

As jmfcst points out, there's not exactly a shortage of scriptural references to hell.

doesn't matter how many verses are quoted, nor does it matter how descriptive the verses are...some people just refuse to acknowledged things they can't accept, which is why more atheist than Christians agree with my interpretation of scripture.

pretty much the same with the scripture's teaching regarding homosexuality.

there's not much use in arguing over what the scripture says when some people refuse to acknowledge what it is saying