God As Compartments

I offer this because it helped me. I was reading a bit from Jonathan Edwards On Heaven And Hell (John Gerstner, 1980, Grand Rapids MI: Baker Book House Company). On page 57, Gerstner observes (speaking of God):

"Indeed, according to Edwards, he is hell and he is heaven. Eternity for sinner and saint will be spent 'in the immediate presence and sight of God....' Preached Edwards, 'God will be the hell of one and the heaven of the other.'
"It is because God is the fire which burns in hell that words can never convey--much less exaggerate--the terrors of the damned." (Also found in this summary.)

Did someone say modes? The rich man and the beggar Lazarus with Abraham, in two separate compartments which are one God. We are rightly in the rich man's compartment: fire is our destiny in God. Because we are BORN spiritually dead, we all sin from the get-go (Romans 5:12). Jesus comes over from Abraham's compartment and offers us, after the sacrifice of Himself, THAT; i.e., escape from this fate. It was God on top Who came down to get us. What love! What mercy! What grace and glory!! Abraham and Lazarus had trusted it. All it costs us is everything: "Go, sell...and follow Me." Get everything for nothing. Not a bad deal - far better than moving to the East Side!