Everything that God created is good, even the bodies and souls of those who damn themselves by choosing against Him. It seems that God would not annihilate something that is good in its essence: body and soul. Rather, since God is Justice, he will allow those who choose against Him to damn themselves, sentencing themselves to eternal punishment.
Everything that God created is good, even the bodies and souls of those who damn themselves by choosing against Him. It seems that God would not annihilate something that is good in its essence: body and soul. Rather, since God is Justice, he will allow those who choose against Him to damn themselves, sentencing themselves to eternal punishment.
I agree with eternal punishment; annihilation is eternal punishment. Bodies, created good, are destroyed all the time; check out Hiroshima, highway of death, pictures from Rwanda, Sudan, Afghanistan, etc.
"Soul" as the bible defines it, it the combination of one's physical life and the body. Thus the Bible correctly speaks of "dead souls" and "destroying souls", that is to say, destroying life. Since Jesus speaks of God doing this in the judgment, this really isn't debatable.
The human spirit, our non-physical essence which gives us intellect (see 1 Corinthians 2), returns to God upon our death. (Ecclesiastes) It reunites with our body upon resurrection (see Jesus' resurrection of the Jarius' daughter; it says "her spirit returned to her".) God does not reveal what happens to the human spirit after the last judgment.