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    The damned have in some sense deluded themselves. — Carmelics
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    Supports→Some inhabitants of hell may finally make a decisive choice of evil and thus remain in hell forever.

    The damned have in some sense deluded themselves.

    Afterlife & DeathEternal Conscious Torment
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    By way of a reply to this argument and in defense of his own free–will approach to hell—which, by the way, in no way excludes the possibility that some inhabitants of hell may eventually escape from it—Jerry Walls concedes that “the choice of evil is impossible for anyone who has a fully formed awareness that God is the source of happiness and sin the cause of misery” (Walls 1992, 133). But Walls also contends that, even if those in hell have rejected a caricature of God rather than the true God, it remains possible that some of them will finally make a decisive choice of evil and will thus re...

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