bluntly, ‘Nobody stands under the wrath of God save those who have chosen to do so. The essence of God’s action in wrath is to give men what they choose, in all its implications; nothing more, and equally nothing less.’10 Another theologian makes the same point and says, ‘For those who take God seriously, human freedom means the capacity to make moral decisions which have radical and enduring consequences. Hell, then, is not a place created by God bent on getting even, but the alienation we choose