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>>150882216
It's pretty much this. Christianity operates on two core concepts
>You get one life on Earth
>Since we all have limited time on Earth and life is so unpredictable, redemption is an impossible concept by acts alone, you could start changing as a person while having limited power to act on those changes. What do we do with the changed heart of a rapist or a murderer when the consequences are what happens to his soul for all of known eternity?
For this reason, redemption in the context of Christianity is very strictly between you and God who intrinsically knows what is in your heart.
This is why the only truly unforgivable sin is "sin unto death", ignoring your conscious, running from your humanity, rejecting guilt or remorse instead of using it to change or atone before God.
Which brings us to this
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Hazbin is very different in that the soul is still conscious within hell. The big stasis before the final judgement is thrown out the window. In the biblical context, hell is something that happens when, independent of how you acted, you completely reject good unto death and commit to your sinful ways. In the context of the show, hell is the specific life you lived and actions regardless of whether or not you felt genuine remorse and atonement before God.
It sounds ridiculous to some but look at it like this, how you atone before man and how you atone before god are two different avenues. A murderer who atones before Christ is still a murderer who has to serve his sentence but if he's genuinely atoned then how do we deal with him in the context of all eternity? Is his act of violence truly much worse than other killers like soldiers who we opt to forgive? These are things viewed by the perspective of God who sees things less relatively than we do but has far more capacity for forgiveness than us.
That's redemption in the Christian context and it's a pretty far cry from what we'd consider typical redemption (redeeming acts)
