Those Souls in Hell

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God loves us all.

It hurts God when we reject Him.

When souls are spending eternity in Hell, does God feel pain for them?
Or is He able to forget them?
Maybe stop loving them?

Thanks.
 
runningdude said:
Matthew 16:23

New International Version (NIV)

23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+16%3A23&version=NIV
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I don’t see how this applies.

Anyway, God “wills that all are saved” but He also knows that not all will be. Not even all His angels stayed with Him.

God loved everyone (wants what is best for them), but also respects every person to make their own decisions.

Gem
 
Years and Years ago, I used to think that God hated souls in Hell.

However, His love brought those souls into existence and he keeps them in existence. God hates what they did that got them in Hell. I believe he still loves the person, but hates what they did. If He hated them, then he would hate us too for the transgressions we make against him but He still loves us. I think it is the case of hate the sin, but love the sinner on earth and in eternity.
 
I believe God loves everyone. He loves the sinners, but hates the sins.

The poor souls in hell made the choice to be there. God gives us many chances to repent but it is up to us if we want to repent of our sins. I believe God can save us at any time, however, once someone is sent to hell, they are there for all eternity. You are probably tourtured so much that it is impossible to pray in that horrible place.

It is up to us to reject satan, and to accept Jesus Christ as our savior.
 
According to some private revelations, God loves the souls and grieves for them not turning to Him. I don’t know anything else though… we are taught that God is perfectly happy in Heaven, but maybe Jesus grieves in His human nature, or He is happy about some things and sad about others, - He is God and I’m sure we can’t begin to understand or imagine how He experiences everything, especially as He is outside of time and is not ruled by emotions.
 
Nelka said:
God loves us all.

It hurts God when we reject Him.

When souls are spending eternity in Hell, does God feel pain for them?
Or is He able to forget them?
Maybe stop loving them?

Thanks.
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One theological opinion I subscribe to is that hell is not a total absence of God but rather because the soul did not learn how to accept God’s love, this love consumes them in a very painful way. My analogy here is the forlorn lover with unrequited love. A man falls in love with a woman, sends her flowers and gifts, calls her, gives her everything that is of his. Woman doesn’t love him back to the point that all his expressions of love become an annoyance. The woman sees the man as a stalker, is threatened, perplexed, annoyed by him, even just the thought of him. That is hell. When we experience with our own perception the fullness of the love of God, yet we can never accept it because we lived a life of rejection of God. So God never stops loving them. The problem is they can never accept God’s love, and it becomes torture to them.
 
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