I pretty much concur. I was brought up to believe that the soul was your: mind-will-emotions. Well I’m pretty sure that all of those things are bio-chemical reactions in my brain…as such they are physiology…which means those three items are actually….hold on….the “flesh”????? Oohh scary!

Plus I have often wrestled with John 3:16 “would not perish, but have everlasting life”. Is the opposite of “everlasting life”…everlasting pain? Or could it possibly be that the true opposite of “everlasting life” is “everlasting un-life”? Could the gift that is “life”…. that precious gift of existance, that chance to experience and share in creation….be revoked? It sort of makes sense to me. You stand before God (whole different thread) and if there is no evidence of a “Jesus life” in you….then you have no life and are NO MORE!!! Trust me, upon recognizing that this is to be your fate….there will most definately be “wailing and gnashing of teeth” as you are….quite literally….throne into outer darkness. That ultimate darkness we “knew” before we ever were created, before the gift of a temporal life…and the potential of eternal life in Christ was ever a reality.

This is why even as an anihilationist, evangelism…or missionalism is so vitally important to me. To know Jesus, to be in the Kingdom, is still one part about the “here and now”….and one part about the “not yet”.

D