re eternity of hell was re hell vic mmalt guild org vic kulikauskas writes our moderator writes i m inclined to read descriptions such as the lake of fire as indicating annihilation however that s a minority view it s my personal view but the only denominations i know of that hold it officially are the jw s and sda s i can t find the reference right now but didn t c s lewis speculate somewhere that hell might be the state of once having been a human soul why is it that we have this notion that god takes some sort of pleasure from punishing people the purpose of hell is to destroy the devil and his angels to the earlier poster who tried to support the eternal hell theory with the fact that the fallen angels were not destroyed remember the bible teaches that god has reserved them until the day of judgement their judgement is soon to come let me suggest this maybe those who believe in the eternal hell theory should provide all the biblical evidence they can find for it stay away from human theories and only take into account references in the bible darius
