“I would assert, that if you think Biblically, you would see that, even if there are degrees of punishment, as you assert (which I don not contest, incidentally), the destination of all who are unbelievers is the same. They will all be cast into the lake of fire.
John 3: 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because they have not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
Luke 13:5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
Matt 18:8 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire.
Matt 25:41 Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Rev 20:14 Then death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. The lake of fire is the second death. 15Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.”
I have already addressed this issue multiple times. If you didn’t grasp what I was saying the first time, you need to reread my prior comments. If you grasped it but just want to keep arguing for argument’s sake, I’m not your person. The Bible specifically admonishes against argumentativeness of that type. We’re not to engage in it. As I said, if you were asking me these things for the first time, I would answer [as I in fact have done]. But repeating everything a third & fourth time serves no purpose.
Not arguing for the joy of it, but rather to correct your erroneous assertions. Without Jesus, the lost are cast into the Lake of Fire, never to escape. Not sure what you hope to accomplish by arguing a limited punishment, but it seems to be that you think they will escape the eternal nature of it, and will only be persecuted for a season. If that is the case, you are in error. If you think they will only be limited in the severity of their eternal punishment, ok, but in the lake of fire they remain.