Following the Truth: The Easiest Way To End Up In Hell… [Catholic and Open]

FollowingtheTruth.com ^ | Mar 14th, 2012 | Gary Zimak

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The Easiest Way To End Up In Hell…

Mar 14th, 2012

by Gary Zimak.

As humans, we have a tendency to do things that “feel good”. Conversely, we like to avoid things that are unpleasant. When we are young, this practice often keeps us out of trouble. Speaking from personal experience, very few kids are going to put the metal key in the electrical socket more than once. One “zap” is usually all it takes to make them realize that it’s not a “fun” experience! Unfortunately, while this attitude can be a big help when we are young, it can work against us when we are older ESPECIALLY when we use it as the basis for making moral decisions.

There is no question that sometimes what God wants us to do is not pleasant. If we want to grow closer to Him, however, it’s necessary to do these unpleasant things. When we study the life of Christ and the saints, we see them constantly rising above what “feels good”, choosing instead what is necessary. If you need an example, look at the life of Jesus and remove everything that wasn’t pleasant. What would be left? If you take away His most painful agony, suffering and dying on cross, where would you and I be today? Quite often, what is most painful in life bears the most fruit. If we want to get closer to Christ, we have to learn to put aside what WE want to do and do what HE wants us to do.

While it’s important for us to understand the necessity of sometimes doing the unpleasant, it’s even more important to understand the danger of ALWAYS doing the pleasant. Want to know the easiest way end up in hell? Always do those things that “feel good” or look attractive! No matter how much we want to deny it, sin feels good (at least for the moment). If it didn’t, we wouldn’t be tempted to sin. Let’s face it…if it was a sin to drink sour milk or eat moldy bread, it wouldn’t be too hard to avoid. Satan may be a liar, but he’s not stupid. If he wants you to sin (and he does!), he’s going to tempt you by appealing to your sense of pleasure. The “harmless” link on the Internet that teases you with pictures of a celebrity’s revealing dress, the thought of “sleeping in” and missing Mass on Sunday, the gratification of not forgiving someone who offended you…these are ways that he fools you into sinning and putting your salvation in jeopardy.

Fortunately for us, the Church gives us the season of Lent to work on practicing self denial. If we train ourselves to voluntarily give up small pleasures, we’ll be better able to avoid the evil of mortal sin. Although eating the candy bar won’t send you to hell for all eternity, clicking on that link could lead to something that will. Self mastery is the key to becoming a saint. Give it some thought…

It really is THAT important!

“It is not always in the soul’s power not to feel a temptation. But it is always in its power not to consent to it.” (Saint Francis de Sales)

[anathemized]

I’ll watch for the movie, good night, may God bless you.

[count-your-change]

Then going to hell has nothing to do with whether a person is sinner. Christ committed no sin and went into hell, Hades, as Peter said and this was the Sheol that Ps.16:10 spoke of when Peter quoted it as prophetic of the Messiah.

Is Mr. Zimak telling the truth? or is he confused about the truth of the Scriptures?

[johngrace]

LAWYERS ARE US

Language Gymnastics ?

Where are the ambulances tonight?

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized discussion, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.

Lathering Lawyering is too much Lathering? Or is it?

Good Night.

[count-your-change]

Sometimes “Following the truth” isn’t quite what is expected. And judging by your last post, it can even be unpleasant.

[Cvengr]

Our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus descended into Abraham’s Bosom, also known as Paradise, a compartment of Hades, the underworld.

Hades has four known compartments: Paradise, The Torments, Tartarus, and The Abyss.

In OT times, the souls of believers descended to Paradise, while the souls of unbelievers were placed in the Torments until the 2nd resurrection and Great White Throne Judgment.

The Abyss and Tartarus are confines of fallen angels with the most criminal confined to the Abyss.

When God the Father released the human spirit of Jesus Christ and God the Holy Spirit brought the soul of Christ back to his body in the tomb and they joined and resurrected, He left Hades and later ascended to Heaven.

Believers when they die today are face to face with the Lord.

[count-your-change]

Imaginative indeed! Unscriptural but nonetheless imaginative. And unfortunately not “Following the truth” as no such “compartments” are called part of Hades, Sheol in the Scriptures and Christ was resurrected as a spirit person not as spirit plus body united according to Paul in 1 Cor. 15.

Speaking of God’s word, Jesus called it the “truth” to follow as at 1 Cor. 15:45,50.

[Gumdrop]

“And unfortunately not “Following the truth” as no such “compartments” are called part of Hades, Sheol in the Scriptures and Christ was resurrected as a spirit person not as spirit plus body united according to Paul in 1 Cor. 15.

Am I understanding you correctly - that you are saying Christ was resurrected as a spirit person - according the St. Paul in Corinthians, Chapter 15?

I am lookinbg at my “New Jerusalem Bible”, Cor. ch. 15 - the heading is “THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD.”

Paul is emphatic that Jesus was raised from the dead and he states in verses 12-14, “If there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ cannot have been raised either, and if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is without substance, and so is your faith.”

The Gospels relate the story of Thomas who stated he would not believe the resurrection of Jesus until he/Thomas put his fingers into the holes of His hands, and put his hand into the wounded side of Jesus.

And we also read about the first manifestation of the risen Jesus on the road to Emmaus when Jesus actually shared a supper with two of his disciples.

I am curious, as I am not certain about your posting regarding he resurrected Jesus as a “spirit person”. Perhaps I am nisinterpretting what you posted?

[count-your-change]

The New Jerusalem Bible 1 Cor. 15:45,

“So the first man, Adam, as scripture says, became a living soul; and the last Adam has become a life-giving spirit.”

I don't think we have any question about who Paul is talking about here. He says Christ “has become” a spirit by resurrection.

So in answer to: “Am I understanding you correctly - that you are saying Christ was resurrected as a spirit person - according the St. Paul in Corinthians, Chapter 15?”, Yes, you understand what I said correctly...and what Paul said as you see in his comment.

Spirits, angels have appeared with fleshly bodies before, three angels came to Abraham (Gen. 18) and even sat down to eat a meal. Jacob grappled with an angel (Gen. 32) so it was not just a vision but actual material flesh he could grasp that the angel produced.
So that Jesus manifested a fleshly food eating body at will is hardly without precedent. Nor as those angels did, dissolving (for want of a better term) it since as Paul further said in vs. 50 that “flesh and blood cannot inherit God's kingdom.”

But lest there be no doubt, Paul makes clear Jesus was not resurrected as a flesh and blood human but as a spirit and returned to heaven as a spirit.