Posted on 02/20/2015 2:13:26 PM PST by NYer
PING!
Well, hell on earth to me would be living with Moochelle...just sayin.
The absence of God.
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Are you kidding?
Hell is a good place for other people to go
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.
The definition of hell is that place which, no matter how evil people are, they don’t think they’re going to it.
Seems to be the Religion forum lately.
Six years of Obama in office have been hell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Divorce
C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce is an interesting take on this
C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
Hell is Obastards brain.
Yup. I think Lewis really hit the nail on the head. God created Hell out of Love. God has such love — even for people who reject Him — that He made a place where people can go where He is not. It’s exactly what they want, so God provides it. Because He loves us.
A bad drug experience forty years ago gave me a working definition of hell: absolute and eternal solitude.
Will you be as understanding?
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.
Apart from the Catholic/Protestant bashing that goes on here, I think it’s a legitimate question: Is eternal hell a JUST punishment for temporary sins - or even false beliefs - committed by or held by weak and ignorant people?
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
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Hell is two more years of the Obamanation.
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