The Scriptures portray God is in many different ways, revealing different aspects of his character and his relationship with us. Images of God as shepherd, father, husband, king, judge and redeemer are all common, and we value how God relates to us in those ways.
When coming at the atonement from a perspective of eternal conscious torment, how do you understand the reasoning behind the necessity of Christ's death as a payment, and why the damned's payment seems so different from what Christ did?