Isn't that an awful thought though? What kind of a loving god would destroy any planet with fire and brimstone and then send people to an infinite punishment for finite crimes? Also, you seem so sure but can you prove any of what you said.
Think about this for a minute... What if there is no purpose to life except for the purpose we choose to give it? A bit of a scary thought, but that doesn't mean it isn't true. Religion has survived and thrived for so long because it brings people comfort and provides a method in which they can live forever.
Think about this as well... What if you are believing in and following the wrong god.
Pascal's wager is a con. As Hitchens used to say, "We are born sick and then commanded on threat of eternal torture to be well". I just don't find god as loving and forgiving as a lot of people do.
What glichtenwalter said is part of my response, as I agree with his comments.
Also, when God's primary purpose has always been for us to be in fellowship with Him and worship Him, because He is worthy, this planet means nothing. It is only a means by which we live on to serve the Lord and hopefully live a faithful life of service to Him that is pleasing, and gives us a home in heaven with Him on judgement day. Heaven is what is most important to Him and who will be there, not this planet. He wants us with Him, but gave commands we must follow to get there. Read the Old Testament...Israel was His own special people...a nation He promised Abraham would come from his seed. He told Israel when He made a covenant with them through Moses that if they obeyed Him, they would have all these blessings. However, He also told them the curses that would come on them, if they disobeyed Him. When you read what happened, the curses occurred just as He said, because they disobeyed Him. He forgave them over and over, when they would turn back to Him, because He desperately wanted them to be His special people. However, sin, wickedness, and idolatry consumed them, and God turned His back on them.
The same is true for us living under the New Testament of Jesus Christ...God yearns for us to be His people, but He has commands that must be followed. If you don't follow His commands, then you won't reap the reward of heaven. Instead, the curse for all the disobedient is hell. Without a doubt, God is a loving, merciful, and just God, but He will enforce the curses just as easily as the blessings, if one chooses disobedience over obedience, just as the children of Israel did.
I know that there are times that I just don't have the exact answer...I search the Scriptures for it. It says everything we need is there pertaining to life and godliness:
3 His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
4 by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. - 2 Peter 1:3-4
And there are times that the following verses ring very true:
8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the LORD.
9 For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. - Isaiah 55:8-9
This scripture in Isaiah 55 tells us there are many things we just can't explain...I believe a lot of the things we have been discussing here can fit into that. We can discuss in circles and until we are blue in the face, but ultimately it all comes back to one word...faith.
