All Christians support eternal torture as an acceptable form of punishment. Is this true?

No, that is not true.

Not all Christinas support eternal torture as an acceptable form of punishment, and certainly not as a Biblical form of punishment.

http://watchtower.org/e/200909/article_01.htm

The Bible does not teach eternal torture of anyone, because the Bible says that the dead have no consciousness. (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10)

The Bible "hell" is simply the common grave of mankind.

The "lake of fire" is called the second DEATH (not second torment) and is symbolic of complete destruction, not eternal torture.

First, I just wanted to say nice strawman, I think it's really neat and you're very clever.

And the 'poisoning the well' at the end is pretty great too...

Listen. Let's just think about this a second.

So God made everything, set it all up, made life and man, and with man, He gave us souls (or ruach if you want to get Hebraic), and told us the right way and wrong way to live.

Not the way He would prefer us live, but literally, He gave us the definition of right and wrong. Being a perfect being, He inherently knows right, and communicated it to us, as we are made in His image.

If you want to use a crappy metaphor, He gave us our own instruction manual.

So then, we decide to ignore Him.

Well crap, since we broke ourselves, we are now disconnected from the source of righteousness, Himself, which He explained in great detail how NOT to do that. Our bad.

So then He launches into a plan to bring us back from this situation, which, if it persists, will separate us from Him eternally, and therefore separates us from every good thing for all eternity.

So He literally causes a division within Himself, makes Himself a man who tells everyone how to get back to God, then sacrifices Himself in the most brutal fashion possible just so that we don't have to end up in eternal agony.

It's not a punishment, but an inevitable consequence.

God did not create it to punish all the naughty boys and girls, He has done everything in His power to keep us away from it.

The fault is with us, not Him.

So please, before you start a calumnious rant, or just spreading generic vitriolic libel, why don't you think about it first.

Universalists and Unitarians believe that all will ultimately be redeemed and saved, though the deliberately wicked may have some rough sledding as they "work out" their karma in the hereafter.

Of course some Christians deny that these groups are 'true' Christians since they do not think that Jesus is actually God.

You have a misunderstanding of hell. It is not physical torture for eternity, we are completely spiritual in the afterlife. The way I think of it is, the light of God in Heaven that is enjoyed by the saints for eternity is the fire that people who willingly reject the Lord suffer in in hell (once again, not physically). No one is forced into hell, all who go there are completely willing to do so.

Mind tricks? Is that what we call thinking?

Accepting (believing) that is what will happen and "supporting" it are two distinct things. I don't think the average christian feels he has the moral standing to argue with god's decisions. that would kind of run counter to the whole worship thing, wouldn't it?

I don't know of any Christian who says children go to hell before they are capable of understanding they are sinners against God and that sin must be paid for.

Anyway, It's God's universe to do with what he will. Yet we universally rebel against his rule. We constantly break his laws and thumb our nose at him. He created a wonderful, perfect universe, and we contaminate it with the toxic waste of our sin. So he he dies on the cross for our sins to pay for it and gives us a choice to trust in that payment and live eternally. But people like you decide you like trashing his place and belittling the gifts he's given you. You continue your rebellion against Him and expect no punishment. How much would a flawless, infinite universe be worth? How much would you owe if you trashed it? Fifty cents? 10 billion dollars? Your life? Your eternity? Christ paid for a Crhistian's sin damage. You seem to want to pay for your damage and rebellion yourself... that is what Hell is for.

Of what do you speak?

If you think there is a fiery hell of torment, then you have been hoodwinked by the catholic church.

That organization is the worst representative the Bible ever had.

Protestantism is a close second.

You don't have to set yourself free from Christianity, just the catholic church.

I accept that an omnipotent and omnibenevolent being knows more about the matter than I, yes.

Romans chapter 6 says that the wages of sin is death punishment =death

Yeah, it is acceptable for me just as long as it is night time.