From: jkellett@netcom.com (Joe Kellett)
Subject: Re: Hell
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In article <Apr.10.05.33.44.1993.14422@athos.rutgers.edu> mcovingt@aisun3.ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes:
>
>In a short poem ("God in His mercy made / the fixed pains of Hell"),
>C. S. Lewis expresses an idea that I'm sure was current among others,
>but I haven't be able to find its source:
>
>that even Hell is an expression of mercy, because God limits the amount
>of separation from Him, and hence the amount of agony, that one can
>achieve.
>

I have also heard it called an expression of mercy, because Heaven would be
far more agonizing for those who had rejected God.

-- 
Joe Kellett
jkellett@netcom.com
