himself be unjust. Indeed, he would not be a God worth following. As Miroslav Volf notes, “If God were not angry at injustice and deception and did not make a final end to violence—that God would not be worthy of worship.”5 Here’s the key point: God does not punish people in hell despite his goodness; he punishes people in hell because he is so very good—more than we ever thought. Apparently, Jesus agreed. If hell is the offensive doctrine people claim that it is, they must reckon with the fact that
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