I gave you a verse from the Bible a while back that directly says there is eternal suffering. You have a point about the many verses that depict this as destruction. If it falls into the category of a mystery, then I will acknowledge on the other side that God had more information than He has provided me on this side of eternity. Another verse is when the Psalmist was cursing his accusers who were surrounding him. He said to God, "charge them with crime upon crime." So in the context, this is not speaking about an earthly tribunal but punishment as a criminal in eternity.The main focus of pride is on earthly power and control over others, with people getting trapped in their own selfish schemes. Personal value is more important than moral success in light of a person's position in society. These crimes are high crimes. You need to understand in the context of God's sovereignty in the life of nations that He does not think highly of earthly rulers. The rich have a special warning. So the Old Testament is not totally dark about the afterlife.I cannot accept the view that the soul is nothing more than a material substance that can be destroyed or that it is solely under the influence of sin. Scripture supports the idea that God's original intent for the soul was that it be a free moral agent who is eternally responsible for his or her choices. This includes the natural human desire to live as long as possible on this earth. In a regenerate person, this desire is a real prayer that connects his or her past sins with the quality of life.God promises to remember us so that we are able to ask for more days in our lives. In this paradigm, we do not curse ourselves by wishing harm upon ourselves for our past sins. Instead, we wish for our enemies to be removed from our path. This concept of being extinguished is a cursed concept. How can you accept your value before God if you wish to be cursed with this sorrow in annihilation? This experience is the antithesis of joy.I believe that every person has value not just because of their soul, but also because of their physical needs. I think it is unchristian to leave a person in destitution and inhuman conditions. The argument I have is that the soul is a distinct life-giving agent that produces value for all other souls. In some ways, every soul is a mirror image of another soul. So if we destroy souls, then we destroy our own value. This is why God is the only one who has the right to judge a soul in this life and in the next life. We are imperfect people who carry out God's judgments. So imperfect that God declares us in a governmental sense as unable to hear the cries of the poor because we do not judge to protect the helpless. According to God, we are like dead men in that we do not respond to the value of individuals. So God says He judges the earth because if He left the governments to themselves, they would rule by brute force.This is why the system of checks and balances that God has put in place is upside down. Man treats souls as material objects, while God sees each soul as having value in His sight. So much so that He must curse the people who seek to destroy the quality of life in either a government system or a religious system. God is not impersonal in His direct intervention to destroy leaders who make decrees that create sorrow and disaster.All of the frustration we experience as humans is directly related to our understanding of God. He values what He has made, and this is the necessary argument for our own mental well-being. Our value before Him is what motivates us.