Often at times the Scriptural God is not so loving. God demonstrates wr ath for example. The God that I choose to believe in is all-loving and allows for everlasting forgiveness. All-loving, I feel, is a very important aspect of God, so I reject this picture of God mentioned before. We must remember that Scriptures were wr itten by humans.
Humans are fallible.
I choose to take the New Testament as closer to the truth. A temporary hell doesn't allow people to get off scot-free without belief. But people do change, and a temporary hell does not mak e people suffer for a finite amount of sins. We are prone to regard hell as punishment for wickedness, yet we are not inclined to th ink of heaven as reward, but as a free and loving gift of the creating and redeeming God. This is inconsistent.