God loves us and wants us to be with Him. But there are those people who reject God, and He is merciful enough to make allowances, even for them. Hence, there is a place where God is not. That place is Hell, and that is where people can go if they wish to reject God. This is permitted through our own Free Will and from the mercy of God.
I completely agree with your entire statement. Hell is the absence of God. God could not look down into hell and watch his creation eternally punished without being saddened. Otherwise he would be merciless, and without love. Being just and merciful at the same time is an oxymoron. I can't imagine an ALL merciful God eternally punishing his own creations without being eternally mourning for their loss.
No, just an illusion that God is not there. God is Omnipresent. It is the illusion that we can separate ourselves from God that causes our problems.
That place is Hell, and that is where people can go if they wish to reject God. This is permitted through our own Free Will and from the mercy of God.
We build our own Hell and we can choose to be in Heaven today.
If you reject God, God still does not reject you, but Divine Law operates in a way in your life that most of us woudl consider negative. Nevertheless, God is there and you can change your life by changing your thinking. That place is Hell, and that is where people can go if they wish to reject God. This is permitted through our own Free Will and from the mercy of God.
Hell, like Heaven, is not a geographical location. It is a state of mind, a state of being, a way of life. If you change the hellish thinking that leads to hellish conditions, they can be heavenly. Then your state of mind, your state of being, your way of life has changed. Now you are no longer in Hell, but in Heaven.
God is Universal, Unlimited, Infinite. Thus, even if you reject God, you cannot be separate from That Which Is Everything. So there is no spot where god is not.