If God permits sinners to continue along their freely chosen path toward an objective horror, their own experience, provided they are rational enough to qualify as free moral agents, would eventually shatter their illusions and remove their libertarian freedom to continue along that path.
free moral agents(as used in ethics and philosophy of action)
People who have the ability to make their own choices and are therefore responsible for their actions and can be held accountable for right or wrong behavior.
freely chosen path(as used in discussions of free will)
A choice or course of action that someone selects on their own, without being forced or determined by external circumstances.
libertarian freedom
The view that freedom involves a radical, indeterminist exercise of power.
objective horror(as used in ethics and metaphysics)
Something genuinely terrible or deeply wrong that exists independently of what any individual person thinks about it—not just a matter of personal opinion.
Now consider again the view of C. S. Lewis and many other Christians concerning the bliss that union with the divine nature entails, so they believe. and the objective horror that separation from it entails, and suppose that the outer darkness—that is, a soul suspended alone in nothingness, without even a physical order to experience and without any human relationships at all—should be the logical limit (short of annihilation) of possible separation from the divine nature. These ideas seem to lead naturally to a dilemma argument for the conclusion that a freely chosen eternal destiny apart fro...