(April 16, 2014 at 9:35 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Heaven is where you live in the presence of God among those that also love Him. Hell is where people voluntarily apart from God. The torture doesn't come from God. It comes from one's own "burning" lusts, living in the smoke and darkness of self delusions among others that think nothing of using others to satisfy their own desires. There is no compulsion.
Yes, there is a compulsion. It's either join God or don't be happy. It doesn't matter if God isn't the one doing the torture; he's the one who set up the punishment/reward system.
If I tell you "do X or Fred will kill you", that's still compulsion.