Fair enough, but we can pretty well resolve the ambiguity in Greek through context. If it's "eternal" for eternal life, it's "eternal" for eternal punishment. And it really is that simple. To deny the eternality of the punishment is to deny the eternality of the life.
Why does it have to be about eternal life? Maybe it means life in the age to come. Perhaps the thousand year reign of Christ. I'm getting ready for bed so I'm not going to track it all down right now, but I know the Bible talks about us as being ministers and teachers in the world to come. Revelation talks about the gates never being shut and there will be those outside the city. And a few other things. There's this book about it. And the author is good friends with a couple of archbishops of the Eastern Orthodox Church, so apparently he's not considered a heretic. There's just a little too much to this for me to completely dismiss it. It's not that easily shot down.
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