And I know others still who say life without Christians hanging around, desperate to prove their piety, would hardly be hellish.
To those people, I would point to the Joker's Gotham City as a demonstration of life without God and his influence.
That movie demonstrated what life without a hint of goodness or God's influence would look like.
I walked away from that movie (streamed it on TV) with a clear sense that I had not only glimpsed hell out of the corner of my eye, but realized that hell is not a static, fixed place or state of being. It is a place in transition. It is a place of ever increasing bleakness.
I got the clear impression that the sign to Gotham City read "Abandon Hope, All Ye Who Enter Here."
IMHO, Hell is not a place. It is a state of ‘mind’ or ‘spirit’. It is the ‘environment’ that the ‘spirit’ will be surrounded by, once it leaves the body.
Rooster, that’s probably the best take on this flick I’ve heard yet.
And there are others who say “how can God condemn people to hell?”
He doesnt. They do it themselves.
God knows the degree to which He touched them and was ignored or denied.