Re: Loquat...

Loquat, the strongest verse you listed in your post is Dan. 12:2. But it is still so extremely weak to prove ECT.

Here's an answer from the Rethinking Hell website for this verse:


"'And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.'

According to the traditional view, the contempt spoken of in this verse refers to an emotion experienced by the one who is raised to judgment. Thus, since the contempt is everlasting, the risen wicked must exist for eternity in order to experience that everlasting contempt. But the Hebrew word translated here as contempt, דְּרָאוֹן (dera'own), does not seem to refer to an experience on the part of the contemptible. It is used only one other time, in Isaiah 66:24, where the corpses of the slain wicked are “an abhorrence [דְּרָאוֹן] to all mankind.” In other words, contempt is not the experience of the contemptible, but rather how they are perceived or remembered by others. So this passage arguably tells us little beyond the fact that the unsaved will be resurrected to judgment, after which they will be remembered in shame forever. Whether or not they continue to exist forever experiencing ongoing conscious punishment is not a question answered by this verse." Tweet