If hell is eternal, then so is evil

[atpollard]

According to the prophecy in Isaiah 66:24, in the new heavens and new earth (the Messianic age), those who are righteous will "go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against [God]". The text describes this location as a place where "their worm does not die, and their fire is not quenched

I told you it was a bad summary. John is more subtle in his objections and has plenty of specific texts if you are inclined to address them.

 

[Oarknot]

Those who hold to the traditional doctrine of hell usually describe it as the final state of the wicked in eternal conscious torment; they are the reprobate, raised for judgment, justly condemned, and forever subjected to God’s punitive wrath. If there is no zone outside God’s sovereign control nor any kingdom that rivals his realm and rule, then some small corner of the renewed creation will be forever marred by sin where divine wrath is forever poured out. The wicked subsist forever; they remain in conscious rebellion, anguish, and hatred of God, excluded from the blessedness of the redeemed, their enmity not healed but set forever. Evil is never entirely eradicated; it is isolated and preserved.

That is one of my difficulties with the traditional view. It seems to require that, ultimately, evil is never actually abolished. Sin is not eradicated; it is quarantined. Hatred of God, misery, and rebellion remain forever as an everlasting pocket of anti-shalom within the new heavens and new earth.

But if that is so, in what sense are “all things” reconciled to him through Christ (Col. 1:20)? Redemptive history is, at the deepest level, the unfolding of God’s eternal purpose “to unite all things in him” (Eph 1:10), so that God is “all in all” (1 Cor 15:28). Judgment is the consummating act in that drama.

I understand the appeal to justice, but I struggle to see how the eschaton is truly consummated if a region of unending sinful resistance remains forever. That seems less like the complete triumph of redemption than the eternal preservation of a defeated-but-never-eradicated evil. But the language of Scripture seems clear in testifying that every last enemy is destroyed, not quarantined somewhere, describing an unopposed, healed, consummated order in which no rival principle continues to assert itself.

Question: How does the traditional view avoid the conclusion that evil is never finally abolished but eternally preserved under judgment, and in what sense, on that view, are all things united in Christ so that God is truly all in all?

Maybe a better question is, are you promoting Satanic salvation or Satanic death? I'd suggest it's termed 2nd death for that reason.

Obviously promotion of Satanic conversion/salvation isn't in scripture and plenty of statements to the contrary regarding Satan and his messengers.

I would not claim that there will be a single person in the LoF. Plenty of scriptural evidence to the contrary. Not so much for devils.