How Christians and there god sound to me.

[Darkstar]

If you want to be technical about it, I never explicitly stated that I concluded hell was eternal, and I did, technically, tell you not to take the original website's word for it.

If you want to be technical about it, I never said you made a conclusion, did I? I mearly questioned whether you read your own posted definition...

Touche. I did read it, but I neglected to post a conclusion pending your interpretation because I was not certain that an unchallengable case could be made for either side.

If, hypothetically, hell were to both exist and serve as a finite sentence, then what happens when the sentence is over? What if you were sent there for blaspheming the holy spirit, which is unforgiveable?

I dunno, perhaps one would return "home" with God... Man said that "sin" was unforgivable, in a book, poorly translated... You do NOT have to believe everything you read...

Well, I don't believe almost anything in the bible, but the book claims itself to be infalliable, so, I treat it as a canonical work of fiction. As you said before, any amount of it could be wrong, but we can still decide whether interpretations of certain text (such as the eternal punishment) are sound. I assume it to be true in the context of a fictional story; anything beyond the text cannot possibly be known 100%, only our best guess.

"Practically eternal" and "almost infinite" are contradictory and impossible by definition, don't you think?
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Yep, which is why I said "or perhaps...", and that is the definition I find most likely.