Question for Christians: If you don't have an eternal soul until you accept Jesus as your only Lord & Savior, what goes to hell forever?

Like I tried to say before (maybe my user id changed), nobody spends eternal life in hell because this is not eternal life, but eternal death (and eternal perishing). Eternal life can only be spent in heaven.

Try to understand this way: if christians have "eternal life", why does their body die? It would be a similar apparent contradiction.

Furthening my answer: how can souls spend eternity in hell if they die? They'll be ressurrected (their bodies) before the white throne judgement, they'll be ressurected with indestructible bodies, judged and then sent to an eternal death (to perish eternally) separated from God. This is very sad, and we can't comprehend how much sad and suffering this is, but this is what explains your doubt, i think.

I saw this post after my previous answer. But I think I touched this subject.

There's no eternal life in hell but eternal detah (=separation from God) and eternal perishing. Eternal life only in Heaven. (Because life in the bible = communion with God, belonging to God, this is the real meaning of life).

We don't perish now (even tough we're born sinners) because God has mercy on us so we can live for a time so we can hear the Gospel and be saved, or else we would have no life, since the sin makes separation between us and God.

The Gift of Eternal Life is given at the present time, when a person believes Jesus Christ, as can be seen on:

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me hath everlasting life." (John 6:47)

hath = has (present tense).

This is not so clear from John 3:16, that's why I quoted this verse. This present tense can be seen in other verses too:

"He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on him." (John 3:36)

Again we see has (hath) eternal life in the present tense.

Our bodies will perish because they still have sin (God doesn't remove the sinful nature of our bodies, we're affected instantaneously in the spirit, gradually in the soul, and will be cleaned of sin in the body at the ressurection (a time into the future). Each component of the human being (spirit, soul and body) is transformed at different times and time intervals.

when men wrote the bible to control other men, they were aiming it at the more gullible, who weren't bright enough to question them.

and philosophy doesn't come into account with religious dogma, theology deals with such matters.

one can philosophise over the state of mind interred in the religious, and the motives of those who interred it, but not religion itself, which deals in matters of pure and part fiction, intended to alter the behaviour of the indoctrinated.

Find me ONE verse in the bible that says ALL MEN live forever.

There is none.

The wicked DIE..the SOUL that sins..shall...DIE.

Second death means SECOND DEATH..NOT second LIFE.

ONE verse..JUST ONE..that SPECIFICALLY STATES that the WICKED LIVE FOREVER.

Bet you cant find ONE.

Cause there ARE none..ive already looked.