If the penalty for our sins is eternity in Hell, how did Jesus' death pay our penalty if He did not spend eternity in Hell?
There is no place in scripture that says anything about sinners being cast into a ever burning hell and being tormented for the coming ages upon ages. Absolutely nothing of a sort. That belief has come to us from pagan origin and not from God's revelation to us. We are told that at the White Throne Judgment all those who were not a part of the first resurrection will be resurrected and those whose names are not found written in the book of life will be cast into the lake of fire and destroyed and the memory of them will be forgotten. (Revelation 20:15: And if any are not found written in the book of life, they will be cast into the lake of fire.
Think about the following for a moment. How could any believer who has been resurrected at the first resurrection and have become glorified immortal men/woman have any peace knowing that their relatives are suffering everlasting torment in an ever burning hell? To believe such a thing is to blaspheme the name and character of our God and our Father.
As God's character is determined by love, would He not do as the scripture says and destroy all those whose names are not found written in the book of life. Does scripture not say our God is a consuming fire, and that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
However believers have no such fear of their God and their Father because they know they have been delivered from the wrath of God which unbelievers; those whose names are not written in the book of life have not so been delivered.
God will destroy all those whose names are not written in the book of life and do so as an act of love, knowing that such people would be totally miserable if they lived in the ages to come with their anti-God attitude.
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