Dear Korean Dude 1
A Korean woman visits hell. It's hot!

Since today is January 6th (the Feast of the Epiphany) and tomorrow will be Christmas according to the Julian calendar (my dear grandmother who came to Canada from Ukraine in 1927 used to celebrate the feast on January 7th), greetings and Happy New Year. Well, so far I have gone 0-for-2 in terms of getting a reply from you to questions. Should I go for the trifecta? Yeah, heck, why not?

I currently reside in Korea. In Seoul recently on a weekend excursion, in one of the largest bookstores in the city, yours truly came across for the first time the book "Heaven is So Real," by the Korean-American woman ChooNam Thomas. In said book, she describes how, beginning in 1996,　Jesus himself on many occasions transported her through Heaven, but she also narrated how she was shown Hell. In Hell, she saw many of her relatives, including her father and mother (her parents had been non-religious). Mrs. Thomas lamentably reported that Jesus said that God the Father had to keep her mother in Hell forever for not coming to belief in Jesus. Jesus was clear that her mother’s punishment would be forever. Of course, this saddened Mrs. Thomas very deeply; she could even hear the agonies of her mother as she repeatedly cried out the Korean equivalent of "Hot! Hot!" Jesus, apparently, was saddened too, and he wiped away Choo Nam’s tears, but he clearly said there was no appealing　the Father’s decree.

In light of the total transformation in　the character　of Mrs. Thomas (formerly, she had been indifferent to religion, but after becoming a Christian in 1992, she has totally dedicated herself to God, and has won many converts, including her formerly-atheist husband), she seems like a creditable witness. Moreover, she was taught by Jesus that all the revelations made by Mary Baxter (who also testified that Jesus had escorted her through Hell, also showing her many souls who were destined to be punished for all eternity) were entirely correct. In light of these revelations,　directly from Jesus to two different humans, how can you argue that Hell is not eternal? Surely a direct revelation from God trumps your own interpretation of Scripture (especially when your interpretation directly conflicts with the viewpoint of the vast majority of　believers throughout human history). Is it not a touch presumptuous to think that so many great saints throughout the passage of time could be wrong (intellectual giants like Augustine, Aquinas, and Bonaventure, just to quote a few from the beginning of the alphabet), and you correct?

Don’t get me wrong—perhaps my earlier questions were phrased a little intemperately, but actually of course I wish you were correct. Of course, that’s all it is—wishful thinking. Obviously God has created Hell to be eternal for perfectly good reasons. It is presumptuous for mere humans to think that merely because they don’t like it that God is going to change His mind. God hates sin so much that no punishment is too severe. We humans are just so corrupt that we can’t see how manifestly just an eternal hell is. That’s how wretched we are—we’ve turned every correct judgment upside down. We don’t want to accept the divine decree, but God is not constrained to follow our petty whims. He has revealed the truth. We can accept it, and be spared his wrath, or break our wills against it, and suffer the eternal and irrevocable consequences.