895. When the world redeemer uses such words as "hell" and "hell fire", they cannot be expressions of an "eternal" torment from which the beings cannot be freed, but they are formulas for a principle that is one hundred per cent in contact with his own manifestation of love. This principle must therefore be just as useful and indispensable in serving the living beings, and thereby just as great a revelation of love on the part of the Godhead, as every other phenomenon in the divine world plan. It was in relation to this principle that those beings who said, "You fool!" to their brother or neighbour became answerable. As we have seen, this principle cannot therefore consist of a "spiritual" or non-physical "hell". This principle is expressed by the world redeemer as "hell fire". Is there not in this very expression some sort of deeper acknowledgment of his particular view of this phenomenon? He expresses it as "fire". As fire is a consuming, dissolving or matter-transforming force, he is thereby pointing out that "hell fire" is also a consuming, dissolving and matter-transforming force. For what other reason would he express "hell" using the term fire? If "hell" were in principle something quite different, even quite opposite, then his use of the term fire would be absolutely meaningless or totally misleading.
      At this point there may well be a reader who thinks that the term "hell fire" really describes a material fire in which the "ungodly" shall actually be burnt and tormented "eternally" and thereby be "punished" for their "sins". But we have already established this view as an impossibility as it serves no purpose whatsoever and can thereby be only the expression of a perverse or sadistic Godhead, that is to say, a Godhead or "Father" with whom the world redeemer, Jesus of Nazareth, who is by nature so full of love and forgiveness, could not possibly be one. And as he actually made the point that he himself as well as his nature was "one with the Father", he could not possibly have had the view of "hell" mentioned here.