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James was teaching the spirit because he said we will be judged by the law of liberty. He used the law as a means of admonishment, which is a perfectly acceptable and lawful use of the law.

Paul wrote what is required to be saved (Romans 10:8-11)

I would even say that those who place Moses at the same level as Jesus, the letter at the same level as the spirit, are lawless.

Christ didn't preach to spirits in prison after he died. That would be pointless because repentance only pertains to the living. That passage in Peter refers to the spirit of Christ speaking through Noah to the now (but not then) departed spirits of disobedient men that are currently imprisoned...

Obedience is hearkening to the voice of Jesus. Those who exalt Moses above Jesus, the letter above the spirit, are lawless.

That's a spiritually ignorant view. What is being defending is this. Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor...

Your comment lacks spiritual understanding. Forget the law of Moses upon which you're trying to establish an equivalence that is not there. Homosexuality is sexual immorality. No sexually immoral person has an inheritance in the kingdom of GOD.

Then the flies lay eggs, which produce more maggots. Thus the worm never dies.

I think it represents corruption, like maggots eating decomposing organic matter. worm G4663 σκώληξ skolex (sko'-lakes) n. 1. a grub, maggot or earth-worm

That word is καταλύω (kataluo). The word we are considering is ἀπόλλυμι (apollumi). A good example of its usage is Exodus 10:7 where the servants of Pharaoh implore him to leave the Israelites alone because GOD has already destroyed Egypt - yet it is still there, albeit ruined. And Pharaoh's...

More correctly, he gave it to the circumcision.

"Yea, hath GOD said..."

Can you show in scripture where YHWH gave the sabbath covenant to the Canaanites? The Amorites? How about the Moabites?

How can they remain condemned when they no longer exist? That's silly. Also, judgment was executed so there can be no more condemnation. If they were to rise from the dead they couldn't justly be condemned again because they paid the price for their crime. Neither of those is eternal...

Do criminals experience condemnation after their execution? Their names are for the most part forgotten.

There will actually only be 2 beings, both human, in the lake of fire for the first 1000 years - the beast and the false prophet.

Here are a few meanings of "destroy" in addition to the one you provided: 23.114 ἀπόλλυμι τὴν ψυχήν (an idiom, literally ‘to suffer the destruction of one’s life’ or ‘to have one’s life destroyed’)—‘to experience the loss of life, to die.’ ὁ ἀπολέσας τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ εὑρήσει αὐτήν...

Perhaps in the wisdom of GOD he deemed eternal punishment to be a necessity. I think it would be impossible to create a god-like being with free will (which we are) without the possibility of sinning. Both perfect angels and perfect man sinned. Perhaps an eternal reminder of the consequences...

Job 26:6 uses the noun form of ἀπώλεια (destruction) that suggests eternal destruction is being shamed before GOD's eternal gaze because there is no covering for the nakedness of one's sinful wretchedness. Hell is naked before him, and destruction has no covering. Job 26:6 Revelation warns us...

Actually the lake of fire will exist at the beginning of the millennium. That is where the beast and false prophet will be cast (Revelation 19:20).