Annihilatioinism vs. Eternal Suffering

Rev 20:10 ' And the devil, who deceived them, was thrown into the lake of burning sulfur, where the beast and the false prophet had been thrown. They will be tormented day and night for ever and ever.' Here the torment will be FOREVER and EVER; that doesn't leave room for annihilation. The beast and false prophet are organizations made of human beings. Matthew 25:46 '"Then they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life." Just as life is said to be ETERNAL, so if the PUNISHMENT. Now, you cannot punish someone who DOES NOT EXIST. So the wicked will exist forever in order to experience eternal punishment, just as the righteous will always be alive to experience eternal life. Jude 1:7 'In a similar way, Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns gave themselves up to sexual immorality and perversion. They serve as an example of those who suffer the punishment of eternal fire.' This says nothing about fire falling from the sky. It isn't talking about buildings, because the city is the people. The physical fire from the sky stopped burning long ago, so that isn't the fire it is talking about here. Neither is the fire symbolic, because it isn't found in a symbolic context. This passage is saying that the people of Sodom are in hellfire, and this fire is ETERNAL. The punishment never ceases, its ETERNAL PUNISHMENT. Mark 9:43 'If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than with two hands to go into hell, where the fire never goes out.' If the fire never goes out, why would it still be burning if someday no one will be there? Now, to answer the parable of the unmerciful slave, Pro uses numbers as proof that our debt of sin is finite, and so is our punishment. But Jesus also used numbers when he said to forgive 70 times 7. (Matt 18:22) Does that mean we should only forgive a limited amount of times? No. It means we should ALWAYS forgive. To ask how many times I should forgive would be like asking how many times I should love my wife and kids. The numbers used in the parable of the unmerciful slave are even larger than 70 times 7. Therefore, if a smaller figure like 70 times 7 means we should ALWAYS forgive WITHOUT LIMIT, then the even larger number Jesus used in Matthew 18:21-35 indicates that our debt to God is incalculable! We owe God ETERNAL obedience. So the debt of our sin is eternal, and so is the punishment. t seems to me that for any being to be God, he cannot be limited. He must be eternal in his attributes, for example eternal in power, no end to his wisdom, no end to his love, etc. But if the depth of God"s love for what is good is eternal, so that he rewards the righteous with eternal bliss in heaven, it seems logical and necessary that his hatred of evil, of sin, must also be eternal, and must be reflected in whatever punishment he inflicts on the guilty. So eternal retribution would be in harmony with divine justice, but since we are finite beings we may not comprehend just how much God hates, anymore than we comprehend just how deep he loves. When God hurts, he hurts infinitely more than we do. So sins against God deserve infinite punishment. In the lake of fire, people are not only being tortured for sins in this life, but for sins they continue to commit after death, as they continue to hate God in their hearts for what he has done to them. The rich man in Luke 16:19-31 didn't repent, even though he was begging for mercy. And even if he did repent, he would not be doing so out of a sense of guilt for his wrong, or his love of God, but simply to avoid torture. This is no reason for mercy! Would anyone genuinely convert after being in the lake of fire? If they couldn't appreciate the love of God in this life to move them into worship, why they will see God's love in hellfire? So eternal punishment is also just because it avenges and eternity of sins. Pro says that different degrees of punishment in hell isn't possible, but it is. Eternity in his equations is treated like a numerical value, but it isn't. Eternity isn't a numerical valuer, it isn't a quantity, its simply a state of being. One could have an eternal row of books with each book in line A a centimeter away from the other book, but in the others in line B are separated by meters. Obvious line A will have the most books, and yet both rows are eternal. Eternity isn't the number of books, its simply their state of being, namely, being included in an eternal set. So eternity isn't a number, its a circumstance. A person has suffer more pain each minute throughout eternity, than another person suffers each minute throughout eternity. What, Pro, is impossible about that? Does not Matthew 19:26 say all things are possible with God? In fact, Jesus taught here will be different degrees of punishment in hell, or gehenna (the lake of fire). He said it will be more endurable for some than for others. (Luke 10:12-14) So my position is Biblical. But this debate isn't about what is logical to my opponent, but about what the Bible teaches. Just because eternal punishment isn't logical to him doesn't make it unbiblical, anymore than the Trinity being illogical to Jehovah's Witnesses and Christaldelphians makes it unbiblical. I look forward to Pro's response.