Posted on 04/22/2013 9:20:06 AM PDT by Salvation
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The conscious eternal loss of the vision of God. The state of being damned by reason of one's own deliberate estrangement from God. This is the lot of the demons, and of those who die in mortal sin. It is damnation because it is the result of a just sentence pronounced by God on those who are guilty. It is eternal because it is irrevocable, being pronounced to be unending in its consequences (Matthew 25). The condemned are no longer in a state of probation, and no longer able to expiate or repent (Luke 16). (Etym. Latin damnatio, condemnation; from damnum, damage, loss, fine.)
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Why have so many Indians, Jews and Japanese over the centuries chosen to eternally separate themselves from God? Their numbers must be in the billions.
I thought that was those dogs with spots...
Or perhaps the Hindus wonder why so many Christians and Muslims choose to seperate themselves from the G-ds.
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