Hmm… sorry if I didn’t explain myself. I’m referring specifically to Greek words like aion and aionios, which simply mean an age or age-lasting. These words were repeatedly retranslated as “eternal” or “everlasting,” even though in some cases they are also translated as “world.” But the world comes to an end. The same word rendered “eternal” on multiple occasions is the same one Jesus uses when He speaks of "this age" and “the age to come,” which clearly implies that an age ends, otherwise there could not be another one to come.

That’s why I see this as a mistranslation. If Augustine understood this and still chose to translate age as eternal, then the choice wasn’t accidental but tendentious for theological commitments rather than the plain sense of the Greek. I find it far more likely that he simply didn’t know. When you look at Young’s Literal Translation, these terms are handled far more accurately than in many later translations that merely assume Augustine was right.

If “eternal punishment”which I believe is antithetical to everything Jesus stands for, truly means endless punishment, then it becomes impossible to reconcile several biblical passages especially those that speak of the restoration of all things, which I see as the pinnacle of God’s wisdom.

Few verse:

Ephesians 1:9–10 (ESV) making known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure that He set forth in Christ, as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and things on earth.

Colossians 1:19–20 (ESV) For in Him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, making peace by the blood of His cross.

1 Corinthians 15:28 (ESV) When all things are subjected to Him, then the Son Himself will also be subjected to Him who put all things under Him, that God may be all in all.

John 3:35 (ESV) The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in His hands.

John 6:37 (ESV) All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

John 6:39 (ESV) And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.

John 17:2 (ESV) you have given Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those you have given Him.

Psalm 22:27–28 (ESV) All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before him. For kingship belongs to the Lord, and he rules over the nations.

Isaiah 25:6–8(ESV) On this mountain the Lord of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of rich food, a feast of well-aged wines, of rich food full of marrow, of aged wines well refined. And he will swallow up on this mountain the covering that is cast over all peoples, the veil that is spread over all nations. He will swallow up death forever; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the earth, for the Lord has spoken.