Is Hell Eternal Punishment?

Punished for Eternity or Eternally punished?

Punished for Eternity is the second death-The punishment itself is forever. Once the punishment is carried out the consequences will be forever. Not the person receiving the punishment forever. You can only kill someone’s soul once. It’s really just that simple. The true definition is; you’re gone forever. Blotted out, never to be remembered; as if you never existed. Consumed by YHVH the Consuming Fire.

Eternally Punished means to be punished forever-ongoing punishment
This is the misguided modern Church version of Hell. Everybody floating on clouds playing harps and over in the distance is a big lake of fire with many of your own relatives burning in it, screaming bloody &*^%$ help me I’m burning. I think most people picture hell as the mouth of a volcano where people are swimming around in hot, fiery molten lava.
This is as bad as Santa and the easter bunny. Talk about not getting it? It’s an understatement. The church has used this false version of hell to beat people into heaven for centuries. But in fact in my own experience it has turned many unsaved people away from God. It is by far one of the worst interpretation errors in modern Christianity.

Hell is being described as a “state of mind” or a state of mind or failure in the NT. With failure can bring torment, gnashing of teeth, being cast into outer darkness; all symptoms of failure and knowledge of it. Other symptoms of this are; a state of degradation or decay because you know you missed the mark and did not receive eternal life. You’re in a spirit body but you’re still mortal and aware of it. You are in a state of decay.
All of the above symptoms are describing what happens after people die who are unsaved. All enter paradise whether the left or the right side. These above will go to the left side as goats and then separated from the sheep that go to the right side of the gulf. All are judged at the JSOC the moment they die.
The torment described in Luke 16 by the rich man was a symptom of the JSOC and not the GWTJ. The GWTJ will not happen until 1000 years later. Only then will people be sentenced to the second death.
This to me is further proof that the description of hell in Luke 16 is only a state of mind being described and not a literal location. How could the rich man go to hell if he hadn’t been sentenced yet? The GWTJ is not until a thousand years later but the text says he woke up in hell.
Better said; torment.
He woke up in torment not a lake of fire.

Only after the GWTJ will people be sentenced to the second death
The English word Hell has morphed into this creepy idea of a place where bad people are sent the moment they die. The way in which it’s characterized is misleading
It is very important to know the difference between a location and a state of mind.
There is only one place people go after they die…Paradise; The left or right side of the gulf.
If you believe hell is a location then show me the scripture.
You will be tormented by your decision not to follow Jesus. You will be rewarded if you do.
Can you imagine if you died and woke up in paradise and you were with the goats on the left side of the great gulf? At that moment you would realize you had missed a chance at immortality. It would be hell to pay for a thousand years. The absolute grief and torment you would feel would cast you into outer darkness where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth. All caused by the realization of your failure and bad decisions, not from swimming in hot molten lava.
The left side of the great gulf in Philippians 1:23 and Luke 26 would best describe the common understanding of where hell is. But it doesn’t have a lake of fire. It’s a place where the unsaved are. All who are there are tormented by their failure.
The right side of the great gulf would best describe Heaven or Paradise where there is rejoicing.

“Hell”# 1067Gehenna, a valley W. and South of Jer., also a symbolic name for the final place of punishment of the ungodly Original Word: γέεννα, ης, ἡ Transliteration: geenna
Phonetic Spelling: (gheh'-en-nah) Definition: Gehenna, a valley west and South of Jerusalem, also a symbolic name for the final place of punishment of the ungodly Usage: Gehenna, and originally the name of a valley or cavity near Jerusalem, a place underneath the earth, a place of punishment for evil.
gehenna, hell.Of Hebrew origin (gay' and Hinnom); valley of (the son of) Hinnom; ge-henna (or Ge-Hinnom), a valley of Jerusalem, used (figuratively) as a name for the place (or state) of everlasting punishment -- hell. see HEBREW gay'see HEBREW Hinnom

As used in Luke 16 “Hell” G # 86 hadés: Hades, the abode of departed spirits Original Word: ᾍδης, ου, ὁ Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: hadés Phonetic Spelling: (hah'-dace) Definition: Hades, the abode of departed spirits Usage: Hades, the unseen world. grave, hell.
From a (as negative particle) and eido; properly, unseen, i.e. "Hades" or the place (state) of departed souls -- grave, hell. see GREEK a see GREEK eido

“Hell” H # 7585 sheol: underworld (place to which people descend at death) Original Word: שְׁאוֹל Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Transliteration: sheol Phonetic Spelling: (sheh-ole') Definition: underworld (place to which people descend at death) grave, hell, pitOr shol {sheh-ole'}; from sha'al; Hades or the world of the dead (as if a subterranean retreat), including its accessories and inmates -- grave, hell, pit. see HEBREW sha'al
H # 7592 prime root shaal: to ask, inquire Original Word: שָׁאַלPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: shaal Phonetic Spelling: (shaw-al') Definition: to ask, inquire ask counsel, on, beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, Or shael {shaw-ale'}; a primitive root; to inquire; by implication, to request; by extension, to demand -- ask (counsel, on), beg, borrow, lay to charge, consult, demand, desire, X earnestly, enquire, + greet, obtain leave, lend, pray, request, require, + salute, X straitly, X surely, wish.

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