Christianity, true, as always, to the complexity of the real, presents us with something knottier and more ambiguous-God so full of mercy that he becomes man and dies by torture to avert that final ruin by an act of mere power. That would be the problem if we were Mahometans. “The problem is not simply that of a God who consigns his creatures to final ruin. God provided a remedy for sin and death, and many do not or refuse to accept that remedy. Most Arminian Christians (those that strongly believe in free will), use this small chapter in CS Lewis’s book “The Problem of Pain” as a defense for our freedom, God’s goodness and love, and because of his goodness and love, his inability and passive wrath to leave us as humans to our own devices.
The above is one of the most famous quotes from CS Lewis on what hell is like. “I willingly believe that the damned are, on one sense, successful, rebels to the end that the doors of hell are closed from the inside.” The thief comes only so that he can steal and kill and destroy I have come so that they may have life, and have it abundantly.
And do not be afraid of those who kill the body but are not able to kill the soul, but instead be afraid of the one who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
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