God in the New Testament does not destroy unbelievers; they only get thrown in a lake of fire in Purgatory.
But that ends after Revelations 20.
After spending their time in the lake of fire, having their souls purified, all sins melting away in the second death, perhaps they may be thirsty... I don't know! ;)
"It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give freely to him who is thirsty from the spring of the water of life. He who overcomes, I will give him these things. I will be his God, and he will be my son." — Revelations 21:6-7
Thus everything before that happens in Revelations is a metaphor on how God reclaims souls not written in the book of life.
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Anything written in this post is ego-centred, and I take full responsibility for writing it.
This revisionism was written as objection to the notion that after the second death, the souls thrown into the lake of fire and the reader is to assume they are consumed.
I say that that's a shabby way of dealing with souls of which God had a hand in creating.
At this point, perhaps the souls in the lake of fire, being originally pure, return to God.
Yet this is a metaphor too.
Trinitarian Universalism tends to agree in part with what I am trying to say:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitarian_Universalism
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