To redubulate an earlier comment of mine:
God, as 'all knowing' would therefore be able to anticipate a given sinners final configuration after an infinite period of infinite torment and then be able, at the instant of arrival in hell, to instill that final state instantly.
It would encompass all possible permutations of evil, tortures, unpleasantness, and demonic depredations and deprivations. So, I'm thinking hell might actually work a little differently than is conventionally imagined.
In a way, this concept of hell is worse, as God would be using higher math (calculus, integrals, and probably Bessellian elements) to derive the end state condition of arriving sinners, and rather than ramping up to their ultimate reward for their corruption over an infinite period of time, they would instead absorb all of it at once, and from then on, for an infinite period of time, they would be infinitely punished.
If you do the math, this is WAY worse.
[shudder]
God, as 'all knowing' would therefore be able to anticipate a given sinners final configuration after an infinite period of infinite torment and then be able, at the instant of arrival in hell, to instill that final state instantly.
It would encompass all possible permutations of evil, tortures, unpleasantness, and demonic depredations and deprivations. So, I'm thinking hell might actually work a little differently than is conventionally imagined.
In a way, this concept of hell is worse, as God would be using higher math (calculus, integrals, and probably Bessellian elements) to derive the end state condition of arriving sinners, and rather than ramping up to their ultimate reward for their corruption over an infinite period of time, they would instead absorb all of it at once, and from then on, for an infinite period of time, they would be infinitely punished.
If you do the math, this is WAY worse.
[shudder]
The granting of a pardon is an imputation of guilt, and the acceptance a confession of it.
