C.S. Lewis says that hell is not so much the punishment of God but rather an eternity lived outside of His presence. This is kind. But the soul is eternal and God is Light and Life. Without God we are without light and life. Devils are beings of darkness because they cannot die, yet they are without life and light. For enlightened heavenly beings to turn from the knowledge of God and reject him the only consequence is the evacuation of light and life from the eternal essence of that being. When human beings reject God habitually, as they turn away from God and embrace rebellion and darkness there is a retreat of the light and life of God from the soul until, at death, there is a final evacuation of light and life from the soul. For a being to live eternally without any sense of light and life can only be utter doom, hopelessness and insanity.
Christ died to save us from this most pitiable fate. From this we will be saved if we trust in Jesus, if we live in repentance, if we hold to the truth, if we finish the race.
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