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While Fr Gerald O’Collins is to be commended for reminding your readers that Tertullian’s joy in beholding the torment of the damned is not a consummation devoutly to be wished (Letters, 7 April), Christians ought to consider that the problem of hell is not a human problem.

It is God’s problem. While theologians disagree on many things, that God is love is not a divisive issue. That God’s love endures for ever has a Bible full of evidence and a world full of witnesses.

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