Why does there have to be a hell?
>>Let me rephrase the question. Why should people who are consumed with hatred for God and who want nothing to do with his commandments be forced to spend eternity with him?
God’s love tortures those who hate him.
Dante’s Inferno is fiction.
http://www.orthodoxchristianbooks.com/articles/207/%E2%80%9C-river-fire%E2%80%9D-revisited/
http://www.pelagia.org/htm/b24.en.life_after_death.07.htm
I do not understand anything about people that would be consumed with hatred for God.