Not even the bible knows what hell is like, it contradicts itself on the subject matter.
Is hell
A: Fire
B: Death
C: Darkness
That's why scholars and enthusiasts study the old translations and manuscripts, and that's why new translations are published.
Especially in this www age there's a lot of development in understanding the Bible better, because there's much more communication between scholars and enthusiasts.
Te darkness is where the dead go to primarily.
The fire is after Judgement, which will be a big event where every person will have to give account for their lives.
John 3:16
So it's ultimately life or death (perished).
This is a tricky subject though, because the traditional teaching is that all people will live forever, some in
"hell" (bad) and some in Heaven (good).
However, the Bible is quite clear, except for a few verses, that it is life in heaven or death in hell. Not life in hell.
The fire consumes. It does not leave anything in tact.
Here's a quote by Charles Darwin:
"I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text
seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my father, brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished.
And this is a damnable doctrine."
Fortunately, when actually studying the relevant texts, it becomes quite clear that God will destroy what He deems evil.
Destruction rather than eternal conscious torment.
But unfortunately many Christians seem to prefer that God tortures the creatures He did not draw towards Him for ever and ever without an end or outcome.
That's the traditional teaching, which nearly cost me my Faith (trust) in God when i believed it too (because most Christians seem to believe this).
I can only hate God when He tortures his creatures He didn't draw towards Him.
And that would mean i would end up in eternal conscious torment too.
You can imagine how i felt in those days....
