Thanks Queef.

I took a glance through, and probably won't be able to read much. Suffering a lot from information overload these days. But what I gleaned in the brief skimming seems certainly consistent with (by and large) the view that I subscribe to.

Perhaps expressed in this one idea? God is a God of love, a parent, the Father of love. Could God be happy knowing that any of his children were suffering under Satan's thralldom? How about any loving human parent? If their son or daughter were captured by sex slavers, and forcibly addicted to heroin, and kept as a sex slave in a tortured state, would you rest easy? Forget it? How much less the Father, whose heart and love for his children is 100 times, 1000 times stronger and more passionate that any human parent?

What about "cut them off"?

The reality of God's great love is that although the process may take time, although it may be long and painful (and it IS painful to God), God's purpose and intent is the restoration of ALL things back to him, in the end.