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🗓️ 28 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | If God created hell and God is omnipresent, then doesn't it follow that God is present in hell? |
| 0:22.3 | If that's the case, why does some Christians say that hell is eternal separation from God? It seems the more accurate |
| 0:28.5 | statement is that hell is eternal separation from God's grace, mercy, and blessing. However, |
| 0:35.9 | how can hell be the absence of anything good if God is present |
| 0:39.8 | in hell? Or maybe does it mean that only some of God's attributes are present in hell? For instance, |
| 0:46.7 | his wrath is there, but not his grace. If that's true, how can God be present without all |
| 0:52.0 | of his attributes if all of his attributes make up his |
| 0:55.7 | eternal essence? |
| 0:57.3 | His attributes are his essence. |
| 0:59.3 | I don't think he can be partially present. |
| 1:01.8 | I've tried wrapping my head around all of this, but have yet to settle on a sufficient |
| 1:06.8 | explanation. |
| 1:08.0 | Thank you for considering my question, and I hope you can help provide some clarity. |
| 1:12.2 | Thank you for all that you do, Patrick, United States. |
| 1:15.7 | Since omnipresence is an essential attribute of God, Patrick, it follows that God is present in hell. |
| 1:25.5 | According to the analysis of omnipresence that I provide in my systematic |
| 1:30.5 | philosophical theology, Volume 2 on the attributes of God, I agree with the classical position, |
| 1:38.7 | that God is a spaceless being and therefore does not have a literal spatial location. |
| 1:48.5 | Omnipresence is a derivative attribute that follows from God's omnipotence and omniscience. |
| 1:56.5 | It means that God is causally active at and cognizant of every point in space. |
| 2:06.4 | So the inhabitants of hell exist only because God causally sustains them in existence |
| 2:14.3 | and he knows what is happening there. It is in that sense that he is present there. |
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