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1 posted on 02/20/2015 2:13:26 PM PST by NYer
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2 posted on 02/20/2015 2:13:48 PM PST by NYer (Without justice - what else is the State but a great band of robbers? - St. Augustine)
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PLEASE READ THE ARTICLE IN ITS ENTIRETY BEFORE POSTING COMMENTS

Are you kidding?

Hell is a good place for other people to go


5 posted on 02/20/2015 2:17:31 PM PST by woofie
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I skimmed it, is that okay? :)

the Catechism emphasizes the fact that Hell is primarily eternal separation from God.

I think that's the whole point right there. The Beatific Vision would be worse than hell for those who love self over God. God isn't mean, He doesn't subject us to anything other than what we absolutely want, eternity without Him.

6 posted on 02/20/2015 2:22:54 PM PST by Legatus (Either way, we're screwed.)
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The definition of hell is that place which, no matter how evil people are, they don’t think they’re going to it.


7 posted on 02/20/2015 2:26:54 PM PST by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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What Is Hell?

Seems to be the Religion forum lately.

8 posted on 02/20/2015 2:27:42 PM PST by TomServo
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Divorce

C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is an interesting take on this


10 posted on 02/20/2015 2:29:58 PM PST by HangnJudge
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“There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, in the end, "Thy will be done." All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened.

C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

11 posted on 02/20/2015 2:34:54 PM PST by HangnJudge
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Hell is Obastards brain.


13 posted on 02/20/2015 2:43:51 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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A bad drug experience forty years ago gave me a working definition of hell: absolute and eternal solitude.


15 posted on 02/20/2015 2:45:41 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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Suppose the Protestants got it right, and it is Catholics who burn forever.

Will you be as understanding?

16 posted on 02/20/2015 2:46:20 PM PST by Ken H (What happens on the internet, stays on the internet.)
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thank you for the excellent post. This Protestant can fully accept the catechism definition: By definition, according to CCC 1033, hell is “[the] state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed.”

I especially enjoyed the author’s study of the definitions of the words from Hebrew to Greek, to English in the discussion of the various lines of scripture.


17 posted on 02/20/2015 2:47:53 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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Pastor Robert Morris gave an excellent series entitled “The End ... what happens next.”

HELL...we don’t want ANYONE to go there.

http://www.theblessedlife.com/series/end

The Blessed Life television broadcast features practical teaching from Robert Morris, the Founding Senior Pastor of Gateway Church, and inspiring worship with the globally influential Gateway Worship team.

Gateway Church is a multi-campus, evangelistic, Spirit-empowered church in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Since it began in 2000, the church has grown to over 24,000 active members.


19 posted on 02/20/2015 2:52:06 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.)
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Father Barron teaches error. Hell is a a lot more than eternal separation from God.


21 posted on 02/20/2015 2:58:07 PM PST by NKP_Vet
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The removal of someone from even the possibility of Christ’s redemption, and God’s presence in their life. Hell is not just the weight of sin forever, and a living death. It is the absence of God, the source of all that is good.


26 posted on 02/20/2015 3:08:21 PM PST by JSDude1
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Bookmarked.


28 posted on 02/20/2015 3:13:29 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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“Answer: the “isolation” we are talking about here does not mean necessarily that there will be no other persons present. Think of it this way. Have you ever seen a person who is “all alone” in the middle of a party with people all around? For example, a person who is angry or having a “pity party” and wants nothing to do with anyone? In fact, the presence of people having fun can be an occasion for increased rage for someone like that! “

I consider Hell as not being able to see God or be near Him. There is a longing in each of us to understand God, and rejection of Him probably results in losing that closeness to God.


29 posted on 02/20/2015 3:30:37 PM PST by ADSUM
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32 posted on 02/20/2015 3:38:23 PM PST by MtnMan101
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I think Jesus paints a pretty bleak picture of what Hell is. It is a real place and God is not there. The story Jesus tells about the the rich man and the leper, where the rich man begs that just a drop of water from the tip of the leper’s finger would be great relief speaks volumes.

I’m not Catholic but I am an ordained Christian minister. I am also a Calvinist who believes in living like he’s an Arminian. The consequences of how we who believe live our lives and share Christ are eternal. St. Paul says in Romans 10:9-10 that if you believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord you will be saved. I’m in no position to judge who is and isn’t; only God knows the heart but either you’re saved or you’re not. Those who aren’t face an eternity of anguish, the worst part being an eternal separation from the presence of God. The Bible says repeatedly there will be weeping and gnashing of the teeth, gnawing of the tongue, hellfire and brimstone, unbelievable pain. And that’s just the physical, let alone the spiritual separation from God.

Blessings.


33 posted on 02/20/2015 4:06:48 PM PST by kpbruinfan (Modern day warrior, today's Tom Sawyer, floated down a river on a raft with a black guy!" - Cartman)
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It is a specially-engineered place, where God is not.


36 posted on 02/20/2015 4:19:46 PM PST by semaj
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Ok, I do not want to be a smart alec know it all but I will be the first to say.

I DON`T KNOW.


46 posted on 02/21/2015 3:46:59 AM PST by ravenwolf (s letters scripture.)
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