The old religious usage is generally about Jesus reclaiming your soul from hell; there are Old Testament usages too, buying you out of suffering, or slavery, or death. The point is, though, that you can't redeem yourself!
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This being favored, apparently, by Victor Hugo?
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But it's always weird, because it's not like there were any impediments to God ending hell, crucifixion or no, so it often becomes something of an allegory.
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I did like the metaphor in The Great Divorce Where Lewis can't find the Abyss the bus from Hell came out of to arrive in Heaven, and his guide George MacDonald just digs a little divot in the dirt and says it was probably something like this
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The distance between Heaven and Hell isn't just one of location but size Heaven is a massive galaxy-sized world even compared to Earth, but the difference is even greater with Hell, which is a particle smaller than an atom
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