Hell-Created-Within Doctrine
The doctrine that Satan’s hell is not primarily an external place of punishment but was constituted within him at the moment of his rebellion against the Divine Will — “as he rebelled against my Will, then was hell created in him – his unhappy state, the rage that consumes him. Therefore, my Will is hell for him, and every time he sees the soul being subject to my Will and knowing Its qualities, value and Sanctity, he feels hell being redoubled” — the interior hell consisting of unhappy state and consuming rage that are the direct ontological consequence of the will’s self-exclusion from the Divine Will, so that the hell is not subsequently imposed but immediately constituted by the act of rebellion itself; and the Divine Will, being the very thing he expelled, now functions as the intensification of his interior hell whenever he witnesses the creature freely living in what he rejected. The scriptural ground is Wisdom 11:16 (a person is punished by the very things through which he sins — hell as the self-punishment of the will that expelled the Divine Will), Isaiah 14:15 (you are brought down to the realm of the dead — Sheol as the name for the interior state of self-exclusion from God), and Revelation 20:10 (the lake of fire as the eschatological form of what was already constituted internally at the moment of primordial rebellion). (E)
Anchors: Wisdom 11:16; Luke 16:23; Romans 2:5; Revelation 20:10; Isaiah 14:15 — Appearances: 2. Full Registry entry.