It would be nice, and convenient, if hell didn't exist. Then people wouldn't have to worry about what happens when they reject a Holy God in favor of a -god- made of their own imagination {IDOLatry}. The KJV bible uses the word "hell" 54 times and Jesus Himself gave us plenty of scriptures to chew on about the subject.
Hell is a place where God is not. Not choosing God {through His Only Begotten Son ... Jesus} is choosing eternity without Him, thus hell - separation from God and everything good. God is a perfect gentleman and will give you your desire to be separate from Him for all eternity, if that is what you choose. Life is about choices ... choose life. As Moses so astutely put it ...
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." {Deu 30:19-20 KJV}
Don't believe something just because you find others that agree with *your theology* (wishful thinking) ... rather, study it out for yourselves, from God's word. Remember, Jesus is God made flesh ... God came into His creation as One of us. Jesus is the Word made flesh Who dwelt among us. His Word (the Bible) is truth. Jhn 14:6 "Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me."
Here's a biblical study on the subject ...
HELL (Sheol, Hades, Gehenna, Pyr {or Hell Fire}, Tartarus)
Page 1 of 2 ... http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=hell&t=KJV#s=s_primary_0_1
Page 2 of 2 ... http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=hell&t=KJV#s=s_primary_0_2
*** Check STRONG's box at the TOP of each page to get the Strong's concordance numbers as they apply to each scripture listed. Below is what the Strong's or Vine's definitions are. ***
OLD TESTAMENT ...
H7585 Sheol
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?strongs=H7585&t=KJV
sheol, underworld, grave, hell, pit
the underworld
Sheol - the OT designation for the abode of the dead
place of no return
without praise of God
wicked sent there for punishment
righteous not abandoned to it
of the place of exile (fig)
of extreme degradation in sin
The KJV translates Strongs H7585 in the following manner: grave (31x), hell (31x), pit (3x).
NEW TESTAMENT ...
G86 Hades
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?strongs=G86&t=KJV
name Hades or Pluto, the god of the lower regions
Orcus, the nether world, the realm of the dead
later use of this word: the grave, death, hell
The KJV translates Strongs G86 in the following manner: hell (10x), grave (1x).
G1067 Ge-enna (or Gehenna)
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?strongs=G1067&t=KJV
Hell is the place of the future punishment called "Gehenna" or "Gehenna of fire". This was originally the valley of Hinnom, south of Jerusalem, where the filth and dead animals of the city were cast out and burned; a fit symbol of the wicked and their future destruction.
The KJV translates Strongs G1067 in the following manner: hell (9x), hell fire (with G4442) (3x).
G4442 Pyr (goes with G1067) or Hell Fire
http://www.blueletterbible.org/search/search.cfm?Criteria=hell+fire*+G4442+G1067&t=KJV#s=s_primary_0_1
fire
The KJV translates Strongs G4442 in the following manner: fire (73x), fiery (1x).
G5020 Tartaros (the deepest abyss of Hell) or Tartarus
http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/Lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?strongs=G5020&t=KJV
the name of the subterranean region, doleful and dark, regarded by the ancient Greeks as the abode of the wicked dead, where they suffer punishment for their evil deeds; it answers to Gehenna of the Jews
to thrust down to Tartarus, to hold captive in Tartarus
The KJV translates Strongs G5020 in the following manner: cast down to hell (1x).
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." {Rom 12:1-3 KJV}
"Wherefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry." {1Co 10:14 KJV}
I pray our merciful God bless you with knowledge of His Son Jesus!
Thanks for reading ... ;o}
