Considering escaping hell

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Abstract

Adams argues that the traditional doctrine of eternal hellish experience stretches the Problem of Evil beyond any reasonable solution, as hell is stubbornly incompatible with God's omnipotence, omniscience, and perfect goodness. Buckareff and Plug argue that people could leave hell. Matheson responds that if people could leave hell, people could leave heaven. But Matheson provides reasons to think that this is not possible. Luck attempts to refute Matheson's argument. I show that Luck's attempt contains analogies that lack features that crucially depict the asymmetrical relationship between heaven and hell. I advance some other analogies that I think contain such features.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1-17
Number of pages17
JournalReligious Studies
Volume59
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 19 Mar 2023

Keywords

  • Abrahamic Religions
  • God
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Problem of Evil
  • Problem of Hell

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