And, if I may add, cannot be brought to love and acceptance of HIM by their free will once they have seen the proof of HIS Deity and power since proof coerces choice and a free will decision cannot be coerced.
Actually, that is not how it works in the fallen nature of man.
Fallen unregenerate man prefers his will over God's will, his rule over God's rule, his way over God's way, his autonomy over submission to God.
Proof of God's deity does not change his preference, it does not coerce a choice to acknowledge and submit to God, it only strengthens his resistance to God and the losing of his personal autonomy.
Unregenerate man is brought to love and acceptance of God only by the work of God in his disposition (preferences/likes) giving him to prefer submission to God over self -autonomy.
There is no impingement of free will by the work of God, there is only changing of the disposition, which governs the will, whereby the will then freely and voluntarily chooses submission to God without external force or constraint.
Scripture tells us that we have all seen this proof by what was made, and, if that proof sealed their fate into their free will decision to reject HIM, then nothing about hell can ever bring them to a true repentance.
What sealed their fate is what seals the fate of all the damned--spirits as well as humans--preference of self over God, and rejection of God for
that reason.
Also, Satan and the demons are condemned already as never believing, never accepting, never putting their faith in His name, John 3:18, which means experiencing the judgement can have no effect upon their inability to make a free will decision to now accept HIS proposal.
The judgment has the same effect on them as did the proof of God's deity; i.e., to strengthen them in their
resistance for the sake of their self-autonomy.
Which is why UR is so preposterous, that punishment will change an unregenerate heart to prefer, on its own, submission to God over self autonomy.
It's preposterous on the face of it.
Sinning the unforgivable sin by their free will, that is, rejecting HIS claim that salvation is only found in the Son.
Actually, the unforgivable sin is attributing the works of God the Holy Spirit to the devil,
because then you have made it impossible to be convinced by those works and be saved.
and thus rejecting His salvatory work in their lives forever as lies of a false god, separated them from GOD's loving mercy and grace for eternity, sealing their fate as eternally evil because their free will decision must be sacrosanct and their enslavement to the addictive properties of evil made them unable to properly repent nor save themselves.
1. A free will decision cannot be coerced by any means.
And
God doesn't coerce us, he changes our
dispositions (which govern the will) to
prefer his will, which our will then freely and voluntarily chooses. . .no violation of "freely and willingly choosing what we
prefer or like without
external force or constraint;" i.e., free will.
2. A proposal of marriage and an offer of true love cannot be forced upon a person and make
a real marriage but must be accepted
The born-again are not on equal footing with God the Father in a marriage.
The church is the bride of
Christ, in
submission to him as the wife is to be to the husband.
by the free will decision of what the person wants to do.
Which is precisely what happens when God changes our disposition to
prefer his will.
3. Being forced by the proof of HIS deity and thus hell is not the same as making a free will decision to accept HIS marriage proposal and offer of a true love.
No problem, no such force takes place in those in whom
God works both to will and to do
Philippians 2:13).
That is, proof cannot fulfill that which is only available by faith, an unproven hope, Heb 11:1 etc, made by a free will decision.
Actually, "things not seen" (
Hebrews 11:1) are
not an "unproven hope."
As far as I'm concerned, they are
absolutely and
positively proven in the resurrection (
1 Corinthians 15:14).
And I'm resting my eternity on it.
