Re: Loquat...

You said, "The imagery used may be symbolic, etc., but if it doesn't mean eternal conscious torment for the lost, then language has ceased to have any settled meaning."

You don't even believe dead means dead or perish means perish.   So I don't think that is a good argument to throw at me when I can throw it right back at you.   

I have said nothing about fairness in my posts, other than very initially when you said it would be injustice on God's part to annihilate people like Hitler, and I came back with, it would be injustice on God's part to torment someone forever that only lived a very finite life here, especially ones that were not Hitlers.   But since then,  I have made no arguments based on fairness and I only made that one based on fairness because you made yours.  The rest of my arguments have been based on scripture and your scriptures to refute my arguments are very lacking in my opinion.