What is the purpose of an everlasting punishment in hell?

[Greatest I am]

What is the purpose of an everlasting punishment in hell?

My premise is that God would not create anything that is purposeless.
If God’s everlasting hell is not serving a purpose, God would not create it since scripture says that God created all things for his pleasure and for himself.

Punishment is usually given to change ideas, attitudes and actions of a sinner.
If punishment is given for any other reason, then it is being given without an altruistic purpose and would be given out of a sense of cruelty.

Is there an altruistic purpose for God creating hell?

If no good result is to be gained from everlasting punishment, is it just for God to give it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA_K5BZmQFM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF6I5VSZVqc

To ascertain if hell would be a moral construct or not, all you need do is answer these
simple questions for yourself.

1. Is it good justice for a soul to be able to sin for only 120 years and then have to suffer torture for 12000000000000000000000000 + years?

2. Is it good justice for small or mediocre sinners to have to bear the same sentence as Hitler, Stalin and other genocidal maniacs?

3. Is it good justice to continue to torture a soul in hell if no change in attitude or actions is to result?

4. If you answered yes to these questions, then would killing the soul not be a better form of justice than to torture it for no possible good result or purpose?

Is hell a moral construct or not?

Regards
DL

[Minimalist]

"Hell" was created by men to threaten people they don't like.

[reverendjeremiah]

If Hell and god are real, then it was made by god to get his sick kicks from eternal torture in a lake of fire.

If Hell is fictional, then it was created to be an "anti-incentive" against refusing the religious bullshit connected to it.

[Anomalocaris]

"kicks" is a menifestation of a psychology created and conditioned by eons of evolutionary pressure.

Why would a eternal god faced with no competition exhibit any psychology?

[Minimalist]

It isn't the "eternal god" that has the problem - it's the men who created him and they definitely had some psychological problems.

[The Grand Nudger]

It's part of the recruiters toolkit.

[LastPoet]

It also accomplishes a sense of justice to the people that believe it. Some people can't live thinking that mabe, just mabe, some bad guys escape justice.

[Anomalocaris]

Yes, Christianity - the morbid fear that somewhere, someone is not as debased and fearful as me.

Liberated and in touch with reality? Ha, unlimited torture infinitely prolonged awaits yee, repent!

[Minimalist]

Some people can't live thinking that mabe, just mabe, some bad guys escape justice.

Except then there are the jackasses who claim that if Hitler accepted jesus before pulling the trigger that he is "saved" while Gandhi rots in hell.

There is no reasoning with dickheads of that ilk.

[Anomalocaris]

Some people can't live thinking that mabe, just mabe, some bad guys escape justice.

Except then there are the jackasses who claim that if Hitler accepted jesus before pulling the trigger that he is "saved" while Gandhi rots in hell.

There is no reasoning with dickheads of that ilk.

I personally think Gandhi should rot in hell. Behind the facade of his loin cloth, he was eager enough to try to use the savagery of the Japanese army to do his supposedly non-violent work for him, which, had it been successful in the way he wanted, would have made Hitler's life easier in Europe.