Hell Is a Choice We Make On Our Own?

I Must Believe That Hell Is the Only Refuge From God For Those Who Have Died Without Christ

C.S. Lewis wrote that hell is a choice (we freely make for ourselves). How I see God makes me reach the same conclusion.

God is pure. We are fallen. In God’s presence, His purity is unbearable (think sandpaper on a sunburn) to us because we are fallen creatures.

When we die in Christ, we are glorified to eternal spiritual life and are changed to be able to delight in God’s presence.

When we die in sin, we die spiritually too. Our rebellious spirit becomes eternally fixed and the intensity of our aversion towards God’s purity increases exponentially. This is some of what spiritual death does to us.

Hell is a place from which God’s presence is cut off. Hell, which to the spirits of the lost is infinitely preferable to God’s presence, is their final and only refuge.

The spiritually dead can’t get away from each other or from the fallen angels who are with them in this, their only refuge – for eternity.  

I’m guessing that the effects of spiritual death account for much of the agony that the lost are said to suffer in hell. Being tormented by each other must add to that.

Hell is a choice we freely make for ourselves.