I don't believe in eternal torment in hell. A loving God does not torture people for eternity.
When Jesus returns the 1st resurrection happens (the saved) all go with Him to heaven.
After the 1,000 years, the 2nd resurrection happens (the lost) are totally destroyed never to exist again.
"Those who believe in eternal conscious hell don’t believe in the second death–
they believe everyone is immortal, and that some will live forever in hell."
We do not receive immortality until Jesus returns. Everyone waits in the grave until He returns. Paul sums it up here:
1 Thessalonians 4
The Return of the Lord
13Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.
14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
15By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord
will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.
16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.
17After that, we who are alive and remain
will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
18Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Torment in Hell for eternity? ... No
Psalm 1:6 “But the way of the ungodly shall perish (singular)” (2nd death)
Psalm 37:20 “But the wicked shall perish… they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.” (consume - totally destroyed)
Perish (singular - not perishing ) suffer complete ruin or destruction.
Psalm 69:28 says that the wicked are “blotted out of the book of the living.” (they will not receive eternal life)
Ps. 34:16, 21 “evil brings death to the wicked.” (2nd death)
Psalm 92:7 “… shall be destroyed forever.” (self-explanatory)
Prov. 24:20 “the lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.” (will not contune life)
Dan. 2:35 “the wind swept them away without leaving a trace.” (no trace of the wicked totally gone)
Isa. 1:28, 30–31 “rebels and sinners shall be destroyed together, and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed.” (consumed - totally destroyed)
Obadiah 1:16 It will be as if the evil “had never been.“ (non-existent)
Mal 4:1 “All the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble, and the day that is coming will set them on fire,” says the LORD Almighty. “Not a root or a branch will be left to them.” (they will be totally burned up - destroyed by fire)
Matthew 10:28 “Rather, fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.”
Here Jesus himself teaches against hell– saying that those who are lost experience the death of their soul. If one believes in eternal conscious hell, they believe Jesus was wrong on this point, and that souls don’t die at all, but will live forever in hell.
John 3:16 “…whosoever believeth in him should not perish (singular)” (2nd death)
Matthew 7:13: “broad is the road that leads to destruction“ (totally destroyed)
Philippians 3:19 “whose end is destruction…“ (destroyed)
2 Thessalonians 1:9 “who shall be punished with everlasting destruction …” (destroyed - never to live again)
1 Cor 3:17: “God will destroy that person”
2 Cor 2:15-16: “those that perish“ (2nd death)
Romans 6:23: “For the wages of sin is death..“ (2nd death)
James 4:12a “There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy.”
2 Peter 2:3: “Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.” (the unsaved in the grave will face destruction) 2nd resurrection
Revelation 20:9
(9) And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
Those who believe in eternal conscious hell don’t believe in the second death– they believe everyone is immortal, and that some will live forever in hell.
Revelation 20:14 “This is the second death…”
Death is Death ... cease to exist. The first death (earthly death) is temporal ... the 2nd death (of the lost) is final and for eternity (cease to exist).
Exist with God for eternity or not exist at all
We do not have a loving God who tortures people for eternity.