My bad. I misread your comment. You wrote "can't repent" and for some reason I read "won't repent".
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From first article: In the debates, immortality is usually taken to mean the inability of the person to perish.CONDITIONAL IMMORTALITY
Destroyed For Ever: An Examination of the Debates Concerning Annihilation and Conditional Immortality
There is no doctrine I would more willingly remove from Christianity than [hell], if it lay in my power … I would pay any price to be able to say truthfully: ‘All will be saved.’1 C.S. Lewis states clearly what is probably true for most modern Christians. Hell may well be unique amongst...www.thegospelcoalition.org
Rethinking Hell: What does “Conditional Immortality” mean?
Conditional Immortality is the view that life or existence is God's provisional gift to all, which will ultimately either be granted or revoked forever.rethinkinghell.com
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Conditional Immortality: Biblical proof of Annihilation in Hell.: Barry, Douglas: 9781482698053: Amazon.com: Books
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If we identify with Ultimate Reality (whatever specific form it may or may not have) then, “we” (at least the way we think of ourselves) is by definition immortal because Ultimate Reality would have more staying power than lesser realities. Ultimate Reality is a metaphysical version of wholeness and the whole is always greater than the sum of its parts. Parts perish. Wholes (and souls?) don’t.
Now if a person identifies with lesser realities (such as power for power’s sake, love of power instead of power of love), then not only will that person (as identified by the lesser reality) perish, but he or she will suffer dysfunction and pain eventually (if not sooner) because of operating on an inferior principle that is bound to deficit instead of abundance (a part is deficient as compared to a whole). So, the wages of not identifying with the wholeness and abundance of Ultimate Reality is a kind of “hell.” Of course that hell can only last as long as the individual is hitched to the lesser reality. As soon as either the unhealthy attachment dies or the individual as an individual dies, the “hell” dies too. As regards individual death, the question is whether the individual releases into the Universal or Ultimate reality (and so cannot possibly perish) or the individual’s beingness is somehow lost forever. In other words is our being or beingness based on Ultimate Reality or on lesser reality? Where lies the True Self? If with Ultimate Reality, it seems impossible to die. But if it is based on some THING less, both perishablity and suffering is bound to be. What do you connect with? Wholeness? Or part-ness?