HELL- Does it Burn Forever and Ever?

This is a key point - Jim in this case is clear on what "Burn up" and "Consumed" and "turned to ashes" means here - and you state clearly that this does NOT happen to people burned by eternal fire.

yet this is EXACTLY what God says happens to them!! You have exposed the flaw in your own argument.

Jude
7 just as [b]Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities[/b] around them, since they in the same way as these indulged in gross immorality and went after strange flesh, are exhibited as an example in undergoing the punishment of eternal fire.
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They are “destroyed” – reduced to ashes by that “eternal fire” from God sent as ‘judgment” as the “punishment” of eternal fire..

Luke 17:29-30
29 but on the day that Lot went out from [b]Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all.[/b]
30 "It will be [b]just the same[/b] on the day that the Son of Man is revealed.



2 Peter 2:6
and if He condemned [b]the cities[/b] of Sodom and Gomorrah to [b]destruction by reducing them to ashes[/b], having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter;

hmmm "reducing them to ashes"

The VERY thing Jim says God does NOT do with eternal fire!!


Mal 4:1,3 The wicked will be set ablaze – turned to ashes, nothing left



Ps 59:13 The wicked are “destroyed” they will “be no more”
“Destroy them in wrath – Destroy them that they may be No More”

Ps 104:35 sinners will be consumed – they will “be no more”
Ps 1:6 – not only the wicked – but “wickedness perishes”
Ps 10:15 God seeks out wickedness “until He finds none”

Prov 24:19-20 The wicked have a bad future – and THEN they have “no future”