God is love. God is just. God is merciful.

[Chad32]

Chad, it's interesting that you assume all punishment is the same. That's certainly not the Judeo-Christian tradition. Dante, for example, has the 'nine circles of hell' in his famous 'Inferno' (with each experience of hell being particular to the sins of that person). Jewish tradition held to seven levels to hell/heaven. There's an Easten Orthodox tradition that heaven and hell are the same - in the full presence of God (to some it is heaven, but to others it is hell, and the extent of that hell is in proportion to the extent of the rebellion against God).

Is there a passage in the bible that mentions different levels of hell? Perhaps the reason Dante came up with the idea of different levels is because you can't justify putting everyone in the same spot to give them the same punishment. Although some people will say the lake of fire isn't exactly biblical, but most christians lean that way.

Not that there aren't other unjust things done in the bible. If we want to move away from hell, we can talk about killing babies and children for the crimes of others, or punishing people to the seventh generation. I think most people should agree that inflicting pain on someone for something they had nothing to do with is unjust.