Why would a loving God send people to Hell?

[Igel]

29. My idea of hell is circumscribed.

You are put to the test. Do you pass?

Yes? Welcome to immortality. That may be good, may be bad, not for me to decide--no basis for judgment.

No? Welcome to hell. Your stay here will be brief as you're quickly killed and disposed of.

The alternative posed by having immortal souls--which is where the idea of hell has to start--is simple. You're going to live forever, and if you're good you want to do good things. But if you're bad--and God has a definition for that--you're just going to create problems and suffering for other others. For eternity. And, at the same time, likely make yourself fairly miserable.

In other words, a short-lived hell is euthanasia to put somebody out of both their misery and prevent others'. But it requires actively denying the idea of an immortal soul.

Of course, that either requires a decided end to things, where the entire mankind endeavor is wrapped up and the planet moves on to a post-mankind era; or it requires an on-going process where people are judged every day or month or year and the refuse from that time period is disposed of.

There is an alternative with an immortal soul--universal salvation. I figure they're pollyannas. They can't stand the idea of something unpleasant happening--what would Baby Jesus do? (Besides cry, suck milk, and spontaneously pee and poo? Maybe giggle. Such love their helpless gods that can't even walk. I mean, seriously--even if you think they're all made up, why make up a wiggling helpless baby-god?)