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The fire is everlasting, the punishment is everlasting, the life of the righteous is eternal.
You literally just said “eternal hell does not exist”
How is fire and punishment everlasting without hell everlasting? You do realize the term hell is referencing the place where fire and punishment is held? Separated from Moses’s bosom?
Everlasting is to the end of time. Eternity is beyond time.
Yes hell = sheol in the original translation. Equivalent of our modern day shale, or a layer of the earth. Like you said, the place where fire (lava core of earth) and punishment (life without God) exist. But remember they exist until the end of time, not beyond time. Meaning that as long as there are people the punishment and fire will exist, not that a person will endure the punishment and fire forever.
You’re confused, everlasting means forever. Eternity just means no beginning as well. Everlasting has no end, it is ever lasting.
Yes, eternal is beyond time. The word “ever” is a measurement of time, so everlasting is to the end of time.
See the trend?