If God allows a sinner to live without even an implicit experience of the divine nature, the resulting horror will shatter any illusion that some good is achievable apart from God.
In religious terms, a person who has committed moral wrongs or broken God's laws.
Theodicy (implied by the statement's structure)(as used in philosophy of religion)
The philosophical question of how God can be all-good and all-powerful if evil and suffering exist in the world.
divine nature(Distinguishes the divine nature from the three persons, which are compound substances)
A reality that is both a property and a simple (non-compound) substance, shared as the matter-constituent in each of the three divine persons
illusion(Austin's taxonomy of perceptual error)
A perceptual case involving a distinctive sensory experience that is apt to give rise to an erroneous perceptual judgment about an actually existing environmental object (e.g., a stick that looks bent but is not)
Let theism in general be the belief that a supremely powerful, supremely wise, and supremely good (loving, just, merciful) personal being exists as the Creator of the universe. Christian theism is, of course, more specific than that, and Christian theists typically make the following two-fold assumption: first, that the highest possible good for created persons (true blessedness, if you will) requires that they enter into a proper relationship (or even a kind of union) with their Creator, and second, that a complete severance from the divine nature, without even an implicit experience of God (...