Our space does not permit us to consider them here.

What we will examine are the direct Scriptural statements.
[81]All the Scriptures show that the wicked will be punished, but punishment does not mean torment.

There is a wide distinction between everlasting punishment and everlasting torment.

Everlasting punishment is a punishment that lasts.

Everlasting torment would be a torment that never ends, but one would be consciously suffering all the time.