No honest person can read the Bible for themselves, and believe that God will roast people forever and ever amen, imho.
Those who believe this are usually people that either believe everything that their pastor preaches... and don't know the Bible for themselves, imo.
This illustrates my point. Because you've read your opinion into the Bible, you now take it as endorsed by God and aren't willing to compromise on it, as you might be if you thought it was just your opinion.
There are countless texts in the Bible that show that they are mistaken. For one thing, the Bible says death, not life everlasting, anywhere - is the reward for those who merit God's disfavor. He promised death, not life. Death is the opposite of life. Romans 6:23
So wherever they go, they are forever dead.
The Bible also say the soul dies. It is not immortal. So no part of man, can be eternally roasted. Genesis 2:7; Ezekiel 18:4
The Bible says people come out of hell, and hell is destroyed along with death - note death - not eternal torment. So hell and death are holding hands.Revelation 20:13, 14
And the Bible says other things that support the opposite view.
... though I think you're right in one respect: the problem isn't entirely with the Bible.
The text is what it is: often vague, ambiguous, contradictory. If we approached it with this in mind, it wouldn't create the problems it does.
The big problem happens when people approach it assuming:
- it has an overall coherent message, and
- that message has no contradictions.
I get where you're coming from: you can grab a handful of verses that imply that Hell isn't a place of everlasting fiery torment and recognize them as coherent and pretty solid. I understand why you would accept that view as "the" Biblical view on the subject.
However, people just as into reading the Bible for themselves can - and have - done the same exercise with different verses and come to the opposite conclusion, just as coherent and just as solid.
In both cases, you have a coherent position derived from the Bible, so the implication - if you assume that the Bible doesn't contradict itself - is that any interpretation that suggests your position is incorrect must be incorrect itself. But how solid is that assumption that the Bible is internally consistent?
Have you ever been to any of those fire and brimstone churches? In many of them, there's a huge emphasis on being faithful to the Bible. Pastors always carefully cite the verses they use to support their positions and encourage their parishoners to bring their own Bibles to the sermons, read along, take notes, use concordances to develop a larger context, etc.
If you think these people are blindly accepting what some pastor is fabricating without bothering to see what the Bible really says, you're wrong: the Bible really does say what they believe... AND it really says what you believe.
When we talk about the Bible, we're talking about a collection of works written by dozens of authors over centuries. There's no reason to assume that all of these authors will agree on every point.