Yes, the reprobate do suffer from the worm of conscience but they do not repent.

So the Jay Dryer who's now an Orthodox apologist routinely trying to refute Catholic doctrine was a board member here eh?

We've had all sorts of people come through here. Even gherkinists!

When are we going to update board policy to ban such horrendous creatures as the gherkinists

Also -

Has gherkin been banned?

He comes and goes as he wills.

Like a cat?

eww

He would resent the comparison. Well played.

How do you conflate the words "unquechable" and "eternal" as having the same meaning? The only fire that is unquenchable is the fire of God's passionate love. I read the verses you posted. Neither one can be attributed to the idea of an eternal hell. Both of them, as warnings to the unbelieving Jews who were listening to Him, can just as easily be seen as warnings in the similar vein as Matthew 23-25, having to do with the soon to come Destruction of Jerusalem.

Proper exegesis of Scripture is made more difficult when we approach with presupositional lenses.

Perhaps we will see him again?

He is invincible!!!!!!!!1, after all.

Exactly. You can feel sorry for your past sins, and make amends. But you don't repent of them for all time. It may seem to be some category confusion here.

I was having a conversation with him, and he left.

Maye it's my fault.

Nah. If it were your fault, you would have vinced him, and he is invincible!!!!!1

I hadn't even gotten to the pre-vincing prolegomena. And he just...vanished.

Which, I guess, is sort of invincible.

I left him a note in the PM place. Maybe he'll see it.

There seem to be many Christians who take words and phrases in the Bible literally when it suits them and don't take other words and phrases in the Bible literally when it suits them not to.

How do you know this, Obi?

Same question to you, Peregrinator, how do you know the reprobate do not or cannot repent?

It's the constant and universal teaching of the Church.

This is not a rhetorical or argumentative question, I genuinely want to know the answer: How does the Church know this and where does this knowledge come from?

With how much certainty does the Church 'know' this and on what exactly is this level of certainty based? Are faithful Catholics required to assent to this teaching?