i have not read george macdonald much, although i know of whom you speak, and yes i am familiar with cs lewis’ view of hell seen in his book, “the great divorce.” just yesterday i was thinking about reading the book he wrote it in response to, william blake’s, “the marriage of heaven and hell.”

i too think that this statement you wrote may be the key to the quandry: “The argument could simply be over the nature of eternity, and not the interpretations of the Bible.”