@Skipper.. read each of them carefully..they talk about what hell is and they do say hell is eternal. Aside from Mark 3:29 which is about committing the everlasting sin (I'll research the original Greek, but most translations don't say damnation and destruction that's total would be a permanent solution therefore eternal). All of the say hell is forever. Now read this verse in Matthew 10:28
Quote:28Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.This specifically talks about what hell DOES not what it IS (eternal) and it destroys. If something is destroyed is ceases to be, including a soul. Imagine throwing a piece of cardboard into a campfire. The campfire was burning before the trash was put in and after the trash is gone will still burn. I hope this clarifies that a little for you.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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