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And even if it were, that still doesn't address the issue of how it's "just" to have an eternal amount of punishment for, say, 50 years of "unrepentance". Maybe 50 years of punishment, perhaps, but not an infinite, unending amount for all eternity.

You can pour a finite amount of cream into a finite mug of coffee. But you have made an irreversible change in the cosmos. It's not so simple as saying that anything we do is finite. There are repurcussions.

Furthermore, perhaps given another decade of life (or after the first decade of punishment), the "unrepentant" may well come to see the error of his earlier ways and achieve that instant of salvation which erases the rest -- where, then, is the justice in eternal punishment? There seems nothing "just" about that.

Somehow I think God knows what He is doing. No one is in hell who "would have" been saved had he just lived a few years longer. Hell is for the unsaved. God is not shooting dice.

You can pour a finite amount of cream into a finite mug of coffee. But you have made an irreversible change in the cosmos.

Albeit an incredibly tiny, local one... Once again, this does not justify infinite repercussions.

It's not so simple as saying that anything we do is finite. There are repurcussions.

Sure there are. But yet again, finite errors earning infinite punishment seems in no way "just".

Somehow I think God knows what He is doing.

Somehow, I see a problem with reconciling the two claims that "God is just" and "God runs an infinite torture chamber".

No one is in hell who "would have" been saved had he just lived a few years longer.

Is it really your contention that if you gave the folks in Hell another chance, they wouldn't be even one who would do what it takes to be saved? Nonsense.

Hell is for the unsaved.

Speaking of which, what kind of "just" entity tortures people for eternity for not "loving Him with all their heart"?

God is not shooting dice.

Just fish in a barrel.