Contra the Logical Problem of Hell

 ...argument contra the *logical* problem of hell...John konnor...

1) if God designs the world such that the maximum number of virts( virtue units) can be attained per nature then a populated eternal heaven exists

2) God designed the world such that the maximum number of virts( virtue units)can be attained per nature

3) a populated eternal heaven exists( 1,2 MP)

4) if a populated eternal heaven exists then a populated eternal hell exists

5) a populated eternal hell exists (3,4 MP)

Brief defense of premises:

1) premise 1 is saying that a virt is an abstract measure of good making action. Good making actions increase the virtues a person acquires. There can be no good making actions if we cannot admit the opposite set of bad making actions( vices). For example, It is logically impossible to have patient endurance( perseverance) unless we have some sort of oppression. The more patient endurance( heroic perseverance) correlates to a greater oppressor. Ultimately a great accruer of vice will amass negative virts while those who practice forgiveness and courage and fortitude will amass positive virts. Ultimately if God does not pre- intend a place( hell) for those agents who reject God through habituated acts of vice God would not be equitably just. Therefore, God pre- intends a place for agents who practice virtue and find communion with God through synderesis or the gift of faith.While those who practice vice experience the symptoms of eternal separation. Such symptoms would be eternal conscious torment due to the realization that they have habituated themselves  to the practice of vice and so cannot attain communion with God who is virtue itself(goodness itself).

2) premise 2 is saying a good all loving God will pre- intend a world that permits the free attainment of virtue thereby perfecting an agent's nature.

3) the conclusion follows by modus ponens. God therefore must pre- intend a place( hell) reserved for those who reject God. God also creates those who God foreknew would end up in hell through that agent's free choice, since ceteris paribus virtue cannot be attained unless we admit vice.

4) it is logically impossible after death for an agent who has habituated their nature to vice to be in communion or reconciled to God who is virtue itself since in the *separated state* the soul( will and intellect) is fixed and resigned existentially  in rejection of the ultimate good. Since, gratia non tollit naturam sed perficit, the grace of justice perfects those who have forfeited their good nature for the bad. In the separated state a person ,(assuming ontological dualism or hylomorphism), cannot dehabituate itself from temporal habituation to perversion since it lacks such potency. God cannot internally compel or externally motivate a separated soul into communion due to *existential resignation* ( lack of composition).

5) if God permits the attainment of the maximal number of virts per nature, God must permit the maximal number of vices per nature( logical  equity principle). If God permits the maximal number of vices per nature it logically follows that * existential separation * follows. Since, a soul which accrues its' maximal number of vices has habituated itself to naturally satiated passions rather than supernatural satiated passions. Such a soul cannot find pleasure in supernatural( spiritual) pleasures due to its habituation to natural pleasures. Eternal torment follows due to * existential resignation* towards unattainable natural pleasures. Hence, such a soul is locked in a self imposed internal state of *existential suffering*, which cashes out as existential interior tension( ie, torment)