[HarleyD]

Biblically, Hell is a waiting place for condemned souls, but the final judgment is eternal death, in which body and soul together are cast out of the presence of God.

If the condemned souls are "cast out of the presence of God" then God would not be omnipresent. As difficult as this is in understanding (even to me) God's Spirit (not Christ) will be with them in Hell.

[cuban leaf]

As difficult as this is in understanding (even to me) God’s Spirit (not Christ) will be with them in Hell.

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An easy way to understand it is to interpret the word, “Death” to mean what we normally mean when we use the word. Then the puzzle pieces all fit together. The fate of the lost is described all over the bible, and first mentioned in Genesis when God states the fate of Adam if he eats the fruit, which he did.

And the salvation from the fate of sin was pre-planned before the creation of the world. It is the fate of man to die (cease to exist) unless he is saved from death by belief in the power of Jesus sacrifice and resurrection.

The saved go on to eternal life. The lost die, never to be seen or heard from again. They are simply gone.

[Mark17]

I have always thought, that even in the Lake of Fire, the spirit of God will be there too, and maybe that is one of the tortures they will endure.

The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: Rev 14:10