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Thank y'all for your posts! Indeed, the condemnation may include human spirits as well. I do not know. My hope that the eternal torment is “targeted” rests with this verse:

And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.

Which precedes the second death description as follows:

And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.

And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. – Revelation 20:10-14

It is my hope that the eternity of torment would not apply to those who were deceived.

It is my hope that the eternity of torment would not apply to those who were deceived.

Yes Alamo-Girl -- that is my hope as well. Yet would it be accurate to say, for example, that Hitler was deceived? If so, is there any point in such a deception when a person can become morally culpable? I ask that, because it seems we are most easily deceived when the promises we are tantalized with are the things we really do want.

Which is why I am so happy simply to leave the judgment to God. He will save whomever He Will. Maybe even a Hitler -- for all I know. After all, we musn't forget Christ came to redeem sinners.