[ScubieNuc]

So, if annihilation is given to the unsaved why not “eat drink and be merry”, be evil and swift annihilation awaits you. No punishment! just a swift soul death!

I don't think you really read the whole post. It (and I) doesn't say that there is "no punishment". There is punishment in Hell, but as you read in Revelations, Hell is emptied, People are tried, and then destroyed in the Lake of Fire. I imagine that being incinerated is punishment also, it just doesn't go on and on and on forever, like many have been lead to believe.

[fightinJAG]

A very good summation.

Plus, since some will live eternally, there will be more revealed as to what that existence will involve. I don’t think it will be sitting on clouds playing harps.

The Bible is like the first chapter in a book. It applies to our human experience on this Earth. Once we no longer only human, and once this Earth is changed, and once the End of the Age has come, God may give us a new “book” to guide us again.