Why would anyone want to scare people with endless torture for NO UNENDING PURPOSE? Only a heart that was truly twisted could have conceived such a horrible fate for those 'claimed' to be loved by their torturer.
Perhaps someone should look up the meaning of punitive. Hell is a separation, not made to redeem. The torture question needs to be directed at the only side here that actually has God torturing people in order to get them to love Him enough so He can stop. And that view of Hell is twisted, and in reality you just stated it is ok for God to be seen as twisted, for Him to torture people as long as it for their benefit, which is exactly what the king and the torturer in the medieval times claimed they were doing.
And only in orthodoxy is it possible to suggest that God tortures people for ETERNITY, FOREVER, ENDLESSLY to get NO RESPONSE.
God is Good. Am unclear what part of the Good abandoning the damned for eternity makes the Good a torturer. In your view of Hell the Good is right there applying torture, but that is ok as long as it benefits them. Your view justifies torture just like they did for the king in medieval times. Torture the subjects until they confess to loving the king. In the orthodox view God is absent from the damned, part of the reason they are in anguish. An absent God cannot be seen as administering the torture you imagine He does in your view of Hell.
Well how about because our view doesn't limit, but makes God the winner opposed to being a loser to Satan as you believe. Our view makes God smarter than your plan by making him an accomplice to life for all, instead of being an heart broken accomplice to being forced to eternally killing most.
1TI 2:4 Who WILL have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the
truth.
He does WILL that all be saved. How else could any orthodox claim He died for the sins of the whole world and have that mean present, past and future???
He created us to love Him with all our hearts by CHOICE, not by force and certainly not by torture. Making someone love you is not love at all. His plan for humans from the beginning was to create beings who would freely CHOOSE to love Him and share His eternal Happiness with them. Because He knew the first man would FALL, making it impossible for ANY human to share eternally with His Happiness without supernatural intervention (hint God - not a torturer). So His plan had to include what His Son would do just to make it POSSIBLE for those that would so freely choose to share in that eternal Happiness, could do so in the next life.
And while here, He made it clear that His plan was to judge us all ONE TIME to divide those who would freely choose to love Him in this life from those who do not so choose. He speaks nothing of giving the later group an extended torture to show them the error of their choice in this life.
No, nice twist and denial. Jesus did die for all, offering His Body and Blood for all. Which means it is His Will that ALL be saved, but He cannot violate our free will to do so.
To His Apostles just before He died for that all MAY be saved (not WILL be) He said specifically "many" (when He could of said all) would have their sins washed away with His Blood and body. In the orthodox view He does not force anyone by torture to accept His Love for ALL of us.
And we note you happily have God painted as a torturer as long it benefits the damned while trying to convince everyone how nice the torturer is for doing that to those poor souls.