What Kind of Teacher Worships an Eternal Hell Tormenter?

Eternal Conscious Torment (ECT) is not just a doctrinal mistake. It is a blasphemous accusation against the heart and nature of God. It paints the Father as a sadist, the Son as a failure, and the Spirit as a powerless witness to the destruction of most of humanity. The problem is not just with how ECT misreads Scripture, but with the kind of god it demands people to worship.

And when these accusations are challenged, those who cling to ECT do not reflect the humility of truth-seekers. They condemn. They slander. They attack anyone who dares to believe that God might actually be good enough, loving enough, powerful enough to finish what He started in Christ. But the irony is sharp: the very people hurling accusations of heresy are often the ones who preach a God more monstrous than merciful.

Only a Certain Kind of Teacher Could Preach Eternal Torment

Here is the indictment. These are the charges. Read them all together, and the tragedy becomes unbearable:

1. They worship a god whose defining act is not redemption but eternal cruelty.
2. They call good what the conscience naturally recoils from.
3. They make the cross weak, and the grave final.
4. They give Satan the majority of the harvest.
5. They preach a gospel where Christ saves the few, while torment devours the many.
6. They claim God is love, then say love expires at death.
7. They blind the church to the beauty of restoration.
8. They call the Good Shepherd a destroyer of His own sheep.
9. They exalt fear as the doorway to salvation.
10. They weaponize mistranslation to enshrine torture as holy.
11. They defend tradition while ignoring God-breathed scripture.
12. They twist the word “all” until it only means some.
13. They redefine justice into revenge.
14. They confuse punishment with preservation in pain.
15. They claim that a loving God created billions just to burn them.
16. They say that mercy ends but wrath does not.
17. They turn the ministry of reconciliation into a cosmic failure.
18. They treat the tree of life as irrelevant for the nations it was promised to heal.
19. They deny that fire refines, insisting it only tortures.
20. They claim grace is a conditional reward, not an unconditional gift.
21. They interpret “aionios” as “eternal” wherever it hurts, but not where it heals.
22. They claim Jesus came to save the world, then insist He’ll lose most of it.
23. They claim victory, while describing near-total failure.
24. They dismiss scriptures that clearly declare the reconciliation of all things.
25. They say judgment means endless pain, not age-during correction.
26. They use fear to keep the pews filled, not the Spirit to set the captives free.
27. They protect creeds over truth, and comfort over repentance.
28. They teach that God endures forever in torment, not in love.
29. They hide behind the parable of the Rich Man while ignoring its context.
30. They take hope away from the hurting, and peace from the searching.
31. They reduce the gospel to a warning instead of a promise.
32. They deny that every knee will bow joyfully in worship.
33. They make God’s sovereignty weaker than human rebellion.
34. They confuse the lake of fire with eternal life in misery.
35. They ignore that even Sodom will be restored.
36. They claim God’s image-bearers deserve endless desecration.
37. They use mistranslations to uphold fear-based theology.
38. They treat judgment as finality instead of transformation.
39. They flatten Hebrew terms like Sheol into “hell” for convenience.
40. They combine Gehenna, Hades, and Tartarus into one horror fantasy.
41. They reject the corrective purpose of divine fire.
42. They make salvation a race against death.
43. They forget the thief on the cross needed no theology.
44. They claim God’s patience has an expiration date.
45. They preach that God’s love has borders.
46. They reduce “all in Adam die” and “all in Christ live” to theological riddles.
47. They paint God as an eternal torment warden.
48. They use selective literalism to fit their doctrine.
49. They turn the gospel into a fear contract.
50. They confuse eternal life with eternal punishment.
51. They teach that Jesus’ mission failed for most of humanity.
52. They treat God’s promises as conditional threats.
53. They build doctrine on the silence of parables.
54. They deny the promise that God will be all in all.
55. They cling to mystery when love is plainly spoken.
56. They preach that grace is only good if it’s exclusive.
57. They teach that God never gets what He wants.
58. They hide from the plain meaning of Colossians 1:20.
59. They claim Christ’s blood saves only a few.
60. They treat the resurrection as a prelude to endless torture.
61. They teach that most image-bearers were created for destruction.
62. They preach good news that sounds like bad news.
63. They turn the hope of the nations into horror for the world.
64. They treat mercy as weakness and wrath as strength.
65. They prefer Augustine over the apostles.
66. They glorify punishment and marginalize restoration.
67. They exalt tradition above translation accuracy.
68. They avoid words like “restore” and “reconcile” in favor of “burn” and “damn.”
69. They claim the gates of the New Jerusalem are open to no one.
70. They deny that the leaves of the tree are for the healing of nations.
71. They insist that torment brings glory to God.
72. They teach that God’s justice is vengeance without end.
73. They assume the fire of God is for torment, not purification.
74. They consider the gospel dangerous when it’s too good.
75. They teach that hope is heresy.
76. They call the Spirit’s witness to mercy “false teaching.”
77. They ignore the witness of the early church on restorative justice.
78. They reject the universal fruit of Christ’s obedience.
79. They make salvation exclusive to time and location.
80. They silence the prophetic voice that cries “comfort, comfort My people.”
81. They minimize the Lamb’s authority over death and hades.
82. They treat evil as stronger than the cross.
83. They use the word “just” to excuse everlasting injustice.
84. They believe the Potter smashes the clay instead of remaking it.
85. They downplay that Jesus descended to set captives free.
86. They twist love into terror.
87. They quote creeds louder than they quote Christ.
88. They make hell eternal and hope temporary.
89. They turn the Shepherd’s search into a pointless exercise.
90. They prefer fear-based obedience to Spirit-led trust.
91. They say “God is love,” but only if you meet the deadline.
92. They declare that the Gospel is true for a lucky few.
93. They make salvation a system of exclusion.
94. They turn the King of Peace into the Warden of Pain.
95. They preach doctrines of demons, while calling them holy!

The Tragedy of the Translators

But where did this twisted image of God even come from? It wasn’t from Genesis. It wasn’t from the mouth of Christ. And it wasn’t from the apostles who proclaimed the reconciliation of the world.

It was from translators.

Men who flattened the Hebrew “Sheol” into “hell.” Men who lumped together “Gehenna,” “Hades,” “Tartarus,” and the “lake of fire” into one word… hell. Men who turned “aionios” into “eternal” and broke the timeline of God’s restorative plan. Men who translated “kolasis” (corrective punishment) into “torment” and “destruction” into “preservation in pain.”

And now, the people can’t even hear the good news when it’s plainly spoken. Tell them “God will reconcile all” (Colossians 1:20), and they look back in horror. Because the translators taught them to fear it.

They’ve been indoctrinated to believe that reconciliation is dangerous, and that mercy without torture is heresy.

This Is Why People Can’t See It

The scriptures are clear. The love of God is clearer. But the fear that has been taught to generations has become a veil. A veil not over the Word, but over the heart.

It’s not that universal reconciliation is vague — it’s that minds have been trained to disbelieve it. That’s the real tragedy. That’s the real blasphemy. That’s the real heresy.

And so the church attacks the very hope that would set it free.

The Real Question

So ask it plainly: What kind of teacher worships an eternal tormenter?

The answer is as clear as the gospel: Only one who has traded love for fear, traded grace for tradition, and traded the Spirit for the safety of man-made creeds.

But for those with eyes to see and ears to hear, the message remains:

Christ will have the last word. Love never fails. God will be all in all.

Not because man deserves it, but because God is that good.