Annihilationism is sound doctrine in Christianity

Con’s points are good, I will give him that. However, I believe he does not understand what I mean when I say that the soul will die eternally. I do not mean that the soul will take an eternity to fully die; simply that it will die and remain dead for all eternity. I apologize to both Con and anybody reading if they mistook when I meant. Con further asks why it would keep burning if the wicked just get annihilated. That is an excellent question. A question, however, that is not addressed and, I feel, is irrelevant. Why or why not the lake of fire burns indefinitely is not relevant to whether or not annihilation theory is supported doctrine, except on a circumstantial level, if even that. Furthermore, there is no reason to assume that Hell is thrown into the lake of fire to make it hotter. In fact, as far as I am aware, the Bible does not directly state the purpose of the lake of fire – I believe that it implies annihilationism, as I believe I have and will continue to support, and my opponent believes that it will torment souls forever. Rebuttal 1: My opponent is basing this argument off of a faulty understanding of what I mean. He states that the soul is “destroyed,” in that it tortures them forever and ever. I submit that this line of thinking is faulty. In fact, I will use the verse that my opponent presented as my reasoning behind this. If this punishment is everlasting, how can the soul be destroyed? This is illogical: if eternity, by its very nature, cannot end, how can the soul ever possibly be destroyed? He states that this is “everlasting punishment.” Well, obviously. If the soul is annihilated, and destroyed, as Con has already admitted occurs in the lake of fire, than their soul is forever dead, and cannot be lifted into Heaven, or Paradise on Earth (depending on your specific denomination). Think of it this way: if someone states that they will kill you by continually poking you with an object that they admit will never kill you for all eternity, how does this result in death, the “someone” in this equation being God, and the object being used to poke being the Lake of Fire? Rebuttal 2: I have pointed out three rebuttals that I have made in my R1 post. These rebuttals were not denied, and therefore I will assume that Con’s assumptions are faulty to his own indirect admission. With this in like, I would like to say that, in light of this, this assumption begs the question, a logical fallacy by which an argument is produced which proves the point of the arguer by assuming that their original hypothesis is already true. [1] I state that this is case for my opponent because he has not provided any new justification for this position, and has not denied any of the rebuttals I had provided last round, thereby making his entire thesis groundless. Rebuttal 3: I would like my opponent to provide a source which states that burning brimstone produces sulfur. Not because I necessarily disagree with the point, but because I genuinely do not know whether or not that is true, and I would rather not accept or deny this claim without proper reason to. Point 1: I have tried to remain on a relatively theological level with my points, however this particular point will be a tad different: I submit that a God who torments the souls of the unrighteous for all eternity is a malevolent deity, which is a logical contradiction from the generally accepted attribute of God as being omnibenevolent. I make this argument through the Problem of Hell [2]: An omniperfect God would not damn anyone to hell without having a morally sufficient reason (that is, a very good reason based on moral considerations) to do so. (2) It is not possible for God to have a morally sufficient reason to damn anyone. (3) Therefore, it is not possible for God to damn anyone to hell. Point 2: My opponent has not addressed my second point in the first round. I continue to support this point, and await a rebuttal for it, if any. -- [1]: http://www.fallacyfiles.org... [2]: Adams, Marilyn M. (1993) ‘The Problem of Hell: A Problem of Evil for Christians’, in E. Stump (ed.)Reasoned Faith, A Festschrift for Norman Kretzmann, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 301–27.