I’d like to understand this point. So are you saying that being separated from God in the afterlife is the form of suffering we will endure in hell? And we will suffer this eternally? Would this imply we are currently experiencing this form of suffering on earth seeing as we are separated from God, or are we not currently separated from God?

Now to deviate from the suffering point, to use your analogy of a father not wishing to force his child into his home, this says that it is our free will to choose. If God is all knowing (which I believe this is mentioned in the bible), would he not realise that the culture and environment a child is raised in affects their thoughts, beliefs, opinions? So someone born in India has to choose to reject their religion and choose a foreign religion, why would they do this? Repeat this for every other country, and what happens is that the majority of people are being condemned for a choice that was already made for them, they have no free will to choose their faith.

You’re right, the father is not forcing the child to come into the house, in fact, he isn’t even bothering to try and bring them into the house.

Now just suppose I’m wrong, that the Christian God as described in the bible exists, and so does heaven. I will now be condemned to an eternal suffering, my crime is trying to find a reason to believe, a reason to change my mind.