Letter to Schuyler

Dear Schuyler, I must disagree with the September 2013 answer that hell is eternal.  God’s decrees are an eternal word.  God’s decree of reprobation is eternal.  God’s decree of election is eternal.  God’s counsel, the collection of his decrees and words, is eternal.  However, just as Satan is, and likewise just as I am not eternal, so also is hell not eternal. Hell is a created reality, created by God, just as in contrast heaven is another of God’s wondrous acts of created reality.  Things...