Hell is more preferable to nonexistance?

[pocaracas]

Why God don’t destroy lucifer after he fall? Why allow him in hell?

Well… if Hell is simply a separation from god, then what he did to Lucifer isn’t all that different from what he did to Adam&Eve…

 

[adrian1]

I read in Augustin, he sustain some ideea, Existance is preferable to non-existance, even unhappy. Probably is a patristic ideea…

 

[laylow]

Any chronic pain sufferer can answer this very easily.

 

[Kei]

It was a common saying that day.
Even a saying among Jews to the tune of, a child whose first words are not from the Torah would be better not born. Or such.