But I would say to you unequivocably that it is sound doctrine to understand that there are eternal torments and that this is the punishment of the sinner who rejects the forgiveness of Christ.
the bolded part helps to make the point, however, that wisdom is hidden from the wise, and we seek to make the Bible comport with
our lexicon, when It even states that this will not work?
Iow that pov will either agree or disagree with other Scripture, and the great thing about our time spent under servants is that we get an opportunity to familiarize ourselves with
all of the Bible, so that later when we read...um, crap, i'm sorry here ok, but when we read deterministic statements from ppl who
say they know little alarm bells immediately start going off--which means like "hark!" and not necessarily "lie!" but usually a lie, in some little detail at least.
So iow i completely agree with your words in this case, but we are SiT at each other as long as our defs of Eternal vary at this reading.
And so then you just check to see if you are dealing with a seeker, or a speaker, and list some of the vv that occur to you in support or in unsupport, and see what the guy, the other, does with them, and voila; but of course one
eternal principle seems to be that a speaker cannot acknowledge the refuting vv, no matter how many you list, i could easily list ten unsupporting vv for that concept, and you have prolly heard them all, only somehow you will not hear them.
And i dunno if this describes you or not--me, for sure--but...oh, enough for now i guess, dang