Talk about mental calisthenics! How far do some feel they have to go to excuse stupidity and evil?
Did Hitler escape hell because he loved(?) his dog-never mind all the people he exterminated?
As if our opinions matter. We can opine on what people do when alive-afterward, it’s God’s business.
Mr. Hoffman is the only one who knows where he is bound. As mortals we are incapable of anything more than speculation based on little evidence and the word of god! The exaltation of mister Hoffman is not Mr. Hoffman’s sin. It the sin of those who exalt sin over virtue, fame over the unseen heart of mortal men, and value the exaltation of men over the exaltation of God!
We really do not know where the man ended up. The thief on the cross had a last minute repentance and conversion, and Seymour may have also. With a name like Seymour, God knows he probably had lost and messed up parents!