Colossians 2:15 states Christ had victory.. "In this way, he disarmed the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by his victory over them on the cross."
But according to most traditions Satan will have victory and the majority of the world will find themselves in a hopeless situation due to their own unwillingness or according to John Calvin the simple fact God chose only a few to redeem.
How can this be so when victory of the cross and Christ defeated the evil serpent who destroyed creation in the very beginning? Does Satan actually have the victory when only a few gain the gift of redemption?
ect is a doctrinal idea (theory) based on certain bible verses but
not taking into account all of the bible verses... including even from Christ Himself --
"And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell." -- Christ, in Matthew 10
So, as we read in the famous John 3:16, if we are given eternal life, then we will
not be destroyed, will
not perish, in the second death --
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall
not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. -- John chapter 3
So, listening to
all of the verses that matter, we get it we are
not like the devil and his angels that are already immortal and will therefore endure in that fire -- they will suffer ect because they will not perish there -- but human souls are not like them in a very key way: human souls do not already have eternal life until and unless it is given to us(!) (a change!)...so those consigned to hell will
perish in that
second death.
It's a merciful death they will experience really. For the unrepentant who have rejected God, and Love. They would be dangerous to allow into a peaceful heaven, because they would continue to do evils, being unchanged.