Absolutely certain. What is the moral meaning of the, as you understand it, allegory of the Genesis creation story?Quote:
Are you sure I haven't answered it? If it's about your long list of Bible verses, the answer is coming.
You are in a hopeless box with the scriptures. You have blundered into territory with which you are not familiar and now you're stuck. And bear in mind that my list is far from exhaustive. There are many, many more.
Please don't go with the hopeless, absurd "aionios doesn't mean eternal" nonsense. That has been long ago discredited. But even if someone was dumb enough to accept that, it still leaves hell as a real place to which people will go for some less than eternal time, and it also makes heaven as something less than eternal. Equally bad, it does not answer the question of where everyone goes when that less than eternal period of time concludes. It is a hopeless argument that is easy to discard of.
The "cherry-picking" defense is likewise hopeless. Forty scriptures cannot amount to cherry-picking.
The "hell is just the Jerusalem garbage dump" story is also ridiculous. It is completely nonsensical to suggest that Jesus is going to cast people into the Jerusalem garbage dump (Gehenna) for all of eternity as clearly stated in Mt. 25 and many other places.
I leave the field to you. Your best move is to admit to error and move on.