"If not, you get to spend eternity pulling daggers out of your back as a slave to the most ruthless and powerful - while being burned that is. fun fun fun."
I really have to laugh now, cause this is NOT scriptural. What kind of God do you worship that would require us in heaven or on this earth watching and listening for eternity to those pulling daggers our of their back as a slave to the most ruthless and powerful while being burned.
I like the word the translators selected "SOTTISH" fits your description.
Whoa, hold it spanky. God requires you to choose between the two and then holds you to your choice. You have options - the choice is YOURS. God cannot remove from you your right to decide for yourself. He set the conditions and gave you a choice. To do anything but precisely what he said he would violates his nature and your rights. He will do neither. So if you go to hell, you paddle your own boat spanky. Don't try to torture it into some nasty thing that God is forcing you into. If you don't like it, you can play the ad-hominem game and console yourself all you wish. Hell will be the absence of God - just as you seem to be seeking here. In absence of God and his morality, the ten commandments do not apply - neither do any of the natural law we recognize today which was drawn from it. All the evil man is capable of will be present in hell. Justice and mercy are in Heaven. It's your choice. If you want the evil ways of men - go to hell - literally. Evil includes murder, lying, deceit, slavery, genocide, etc and so on. You get the picture. It's not a fun place. And he warns in advance that he will be throwing hell into a pit of fire. If knowing that, you make the choice to go there, it was your choice, not God's. So, don't handwring to me. Scripture gives you all the conditions and the warnings. What you do and where you go is according to your free will. You would violate mine by shoving evolution down my throat and reviling me for rejecting it. God let's you condemn yourself. He's far more just than either of us on that one.