Hell-o

Ok, let's put it out there: How can God, the God I believe in through and within all doubts, a God of love, of all good things, the origin of peace and hope, how can that God consign his creations to eternal damnation? For turning away, for choosing the wide path, for refusing, they are forgotten, left to eternal suffering. As in forever. FOR-EVER!! Un-never-ending pain and anguish and wailing and torment and weeping and gnashing of teeth? And as the absence of God is evil, so the suffering shall be eternally unbearable and hopeless and black. How can this be? Can a truly loving God knit together a soul, a human being of unlimited worth just for eternal damnation? Surely non-existence is way more preferable than this? It worries me, it really really worries me, it is the central struggle of my faith. My gut instinct tells me it is beyond understanding, that I am like an ant imagining the ocean, and I trust and believe that God is good, and know and treasure that God is love. So I shall defer to the Higher Power. But I don't know, I really don't... Answers on a postcard.