“What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?”
I was an adherent of ECT (eternal conscious torment) until I actually studied it. I’m now CI (conditional immortality). That is, only the saved receive eternal life. The remainder die once and for all.
It started with this:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2240648/posts
And now there have been many others, such as this one:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2946377/posts
I had the same experience. Ditto.