Why would god torture people for eternity? Why not instead just dissolve their soul into nothingness?

He certainly could not MAKE them help others without infringing on their free will. Edit; Ah! But wouldn't you consider it more noble to do good deeds for an eternity rather than simply a lifetime?

Coerced, commanded or controlled. Now where's the reason to live a moral life? Besides... according to Christian theology there is one of two final resting places for the soul... heaven or hell.

Souls that are deservedly damned for eternity (if such a thing exists) can't perform corporal works of mercy if they are incorporeal. ((((Mortal))) Edit 2 "doesn't coercion render the merit of the deeds to the person who does them null and void? " Actually no.

Not in Traditional Christian Theology. There are three aspects to every moral act.. The act itself (which is objectively good or evil) the circumstances and the intent. For a perfectly good moral act all three must be aligned with the good.

Coercion falls under circumstance. Circumstances and intent can only greaten or lessen the moral culpablility of the individual... they can not make a good moral act evil or vice versa. Helping the widow clean her gutter is a charitable act (good) if the circumstance dictates that you were coerced to do it (a gun is held to your son's head and you are instructed to clean the widows gutters or he'll die) is not an example of "bad" or "evil" charity.

The act remains good, although not a perfect good.

While helping others is certainly more just than torture, I simply cannot imagine a crime that warrants eternal punishment.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.