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Thanks for your comments Joe. This isn’t just for you but for anyone else who may comment here. Make sure to keep all comments respectful even when you passionately disagree with someone else’s view point. With that said, others who believe in eternal conscious torment accuse conditionalists/annihiliationists and universalists of being duped by the serpent as well. So let’s keep this on an exegetical level and let God determine on the day of judgment whether any of us are teaching the doctrines of demons.

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John 3:16 declares that those who do not believe in Jesus actually PERISH. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

Also, if people are tortured in hell for ever and ever, that means there are always people sinning somewhere in the universe and the sin problem is never resolved.

But alas, there is a hell fire that is unquenchable (Mark 9:45-48). Where does this fire where emanate from? “For our God is a consuming fire.” Hebrews 12:29, Deuteronomy 4:24.

“…and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.” Revelation 20:9b

What is the result of this fire? “And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.” Malachi 4:3.

The wicked will be burned up, they will be ashes under the feet of the saints.

There has already been an example of hell fire on the earth: “Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.” Jude 7.

The eternal fire of Sodom and Gomorrah is not still burning today. The wicked were entirely consumed, burned up, completely destroyed with a fire that was not quenched.

So we can see that people who are damned are destroyed with hell fire, and not living in a kingdom ruled by satan. This begs the question “Where does such a doctrine come from?” Thankfully, the Bible tells us: “And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die.” Genesis 3:4.

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