Eternal punishment is pointless.

[Tonus]

No, because the scriptures support what I stated and my reading skills in the scriptures are more accomplished than yours.

You did not provide texts and explanations for what you claimed, you indicated that a sincere and comprehensive reading of the Bible would make it clear. It's not uncommon for a Christian to point out that something we claim is not specifically mentioned in scripture, but when the tables are turned your excuse is that you have some kind of insight that we lack.

Putting aside the fact that many of us were devout Christians at one time in our lives, that could be a reasonable claim if all Christians were to always reach the same interpretations based on the same verses and explanations. But we know that this isn't the case. At least a few of the Christians who post here have boasted that they have a better understanding of scripture than atheists do, as if it's some kind of spirit-driven guidance that we lack. But that can't be, because even devout Christians reach different conclusions about Biblical "truths."

I cannot accept that a specific interpretation is correct or incorrect based on a vague allusion to some deeper insight that another person lacks. It might actually be valid if reading the Bible always led a person to the same conclusion. Since that is not the case, it requires more than just saying "I have read the Bible and understand it better." That's a claim to a level of spiritual insight that would be blasphemous to state if it wasn't true.