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[Esquilax]

A couple quotes I read:
Jonathan L. Kvanvig: [C.S.] Lewis believes that the doors of hell are locked from the inside rather than from the outside. Thus, according to Lewis, if escape from hell never happens, it is not because God is not willing that it should happen. Instead, residence in hell is eternal because that is just what persons in hell have chosen for themselves.

Does that seem likely to you? I mean, consider how much hell weighs on your mind right now: what this quote says is that you'll get there and suddenly not want to leave. Well, what does that say?

What it says is that hell is nicer than it's made out to be. After all, it can't be due to some mental state that the people in there just never attain; if it was out of their reach then that invalidates the whole "escape from hell is possible" notion, and given eternity they'd have to arrive there someday.

No, what you've got, in this scenario, is a hell that everyone on the outside tells you is awful, and everyone on the inside could leave but doesn't. What does that say about the contents of the place, as opposed to the representations of it by people who have never been there?

Dave Hunt: We may rest assured that no one will suffer in hell who could by any means have been won to Christ in this life. God leaves no stone unturned to rescue all who would respond to the convicting and wooing of the Holy Spirit.

No stone unturned, except any form of evidence, at all. Gosh, god's really trying super hard, if the most run of the mill possible action- appearing- is off of his "leave no stone unturned" action plan.

These seem to make sense.

Sorry, but they really, really don't. And besides, they both rest upon an unjustified presupposition of the existence of hell anyway.