No, our opinion is that
you are calling him EVIL. You do so by adding the word "
ETERNAL" to your theology of never ending, and therefore purposeless, TORTURE. What does torturing anyone forever do? Does it SCARE all the sinners saved by HIS GRACE to not sin in heaven????
And the definition of that Greek word being "eternal" , is a word definition that wasn't in vogue until Augustine, determined to force
all of the church to follow His denomination, the church of Rome. Torturing ANYONE for all eternity, for no reason other than "
I am" and therefore
I can is an evil and sadistic justification from the nominal church system of the 'dark ages', and not in keeping with the majority of the Christian schools for the first 500 years.
SOURCE 1;
"According to Edward Beecher, a Congregationalist theologian, there were six theology schools in Christendom during its early years -
four were Universalist (Alexandria , Cesarea, Antioch , and Edessa).
One advocated annihilation (Ephesus) and
one advocated Eternal Hell (the Latin Church of North Africa).
Most of the Universalists throughout Christendom followed the teachings of Origen. Later, Theodore of Mopsuestia had a different theological basis for Universal Salvation, and his view continued in the break-away Church of the East (Nestorian) where his Universalist ideas still exist in its liturgy today."
SOURCE 2;
"KEN VINCENT: The Salvation Conspiracy: How Hell became Eternal
One of the best clues to early Christian theology is in artwork discovered at the Catacombs in Rome . Graves of common people were adorned with
drawings of Jesus as the Good Shepherd - beardless and virtually indistinguishable from the Greco-Roman savior figure Orpheus. Other popular images there were the Last Supper and the Magi at the birth of Jesus. Occasionally in early Christian art, Jesus is shown working miracles using a magic wand! Significantly, the crucifix is noticeably absent from early art, as is any depiction of judgment scenes or Hell.
As we move into the middle of the 2 nd Century, a shift takes place from writing works considered "Holy Scripture" to interpretations of it. The first
writer on the theology on Christian Universalism whose works survive is St. Clement of Alexandria (150 - 215CE). He was the head of the theology school at Alexandria which, until it closed at the end of the 4 th Century, was a bastion of Universalist thought. His pupil, Origen (185 - 254 CE), wrote the first complete presentation of Christianity as a system, and Universalism was at its core. Origen was the first to produce a parallel Old Testament that included Hebrew, a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew, the Septuagint, and three other Greek translations. He was also the first to recognize that some parts of the Bible should be taken literally and others metaphorically. He wrote a defense of Christianity in response to a pagan writer's denigration of it.
Prior to the Roman Catholic Church's condemnation of all of Universalist thought in the 6 th Century, Church authority had already reached back in
time to pick out several of Origen's ideas they deemed unacceptable. Some that found disfavor were his insistence that the Devil would be saved at the end of time, the pre-existence of human souls, the reincarnation of the wicked, and his claim that the purification of souls could go on for many eons. Finally, he was condemned by the Church because his concept of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit did not agree with the "official" Doctrine of the Trinity formulated a century after his death! After the 6 th Century, much of his work was destroyed; fortunately, some of it survived.