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Com’ on you know it’s not that easy. Remember only the extraordinary number of religions we have in the world. Remember the naturalists who claim there is no God at all. What if a muslim women sticks to tradition, living whole life in misery because she had bad luck of getting a bad husband. And while living in her unfatih to Christ in this limited amount of time, she deserves the horrible punishment of eternal pain? Is this just? Total annihilation seams to me much better in such case.
In my opinion, if God “allows” the existance of Hell, it must be for a purposeful role, or else He would simply anhiliate all those against Him. It seems that scriptures often speak of a duality in nature, such as light and darkness, male and female, and those are seen as being “good”, in the eyes of God.Therefore, Heaven and Hell, ought also be viewed as being “good” in the eyes of God .Scriptures tell us that God is light, but, no one can look at God yet live. However, to be absent from God is also unbearable.We have been created in such a way that we can know God in a limited way in where He becomes a comforter and
a blessing to all of our senses(spiritually speaking)
It is to my opinion that a person in Hell experiences either one of two possible positions; the unbearable presence of God known as the fires of Hell; such a fire is interpreted as being God’s anger since His presence is devestating; however, I would think that His presence is unbearable because the soul demands to know the fullness of God due to it’s pridefull nature.The other condition might be His total absence, identified as total darkness, due to the hatred for God on the part of the soul.
If we take the vision of Sister Faustina’s vision of Hell, it read:
I saw: the first torture that constitutes hell is the loss of God; the second is perpetual remorse of conscience; the third is that one’s condition will never change; the fourth is the fire that will penetrate the soul without destroying it – a terrible suffering, since it is a purely spiritual fire, lit by God’s anger; the fifth torture is continual darkness and a terrible suffocating smell and, despite the darkness, the devils and the souls of the damned see each other and all the evil, both of others and their own; the sixth torture is the company of Satan; the seventh torture is horrible despair, hatred of God, vile words, curses and blasphemies.
First, let us understand that Gehenna(Eternal Hell) is to this day empty of any individual, including Satan. Therefore, Sister Faustina must have received a vision of Hades. Also, I would like to add that Sister Faustina was able to see (in a spiritual sense)
the “punishments” which does not necessarily mean that she saw actual “souls” in the process of being punished(although I might be wrong). The first torture is the feeling of “loss of God”. This could be due to simply the fall of humanity.In such a case the soul could receive comfort as well as a promisse for a later redemption, through the final judment of God; therefore, such a soul could be said to be within the regions of Limbo.Perpetual remorse of conscience could be the equivalence of a christian’s purgatory, a place where the soul is being cleansed.Maccabees reads of praying for the dead "in order that they might be loosed from their sins.One thing that I find interesting is that even “Satan” isn’t within the lowest of all regions of punishments, being the region where there is
horrible despair, hatred of God, vile words, curses and blasphemies. Would this not present to us a “possibility” that even “Satan” is not to the point of despair, or even at the point of “
total hatred for God”? My opinion is that God, in creating us made us in such a way that total hatred for Him would be an impossibility for us to attain. So why all the suffering and evilness? It seems that one can only come to know the true knowledge of what is good(and so also who is God), by receiving the knowledge of what is evil ( what is it like to be absent from God).Adam and Eve were living in Paradise, but in defense to them, they did not know the good they posessed due to the lack of knowledge of what was considered evil.God could not “lead” them towards the tree of knowledge of good and evil, since no evil exists in God, but He “allowed” them to partake of the fruit. . Therefore, if one receives a nature which is doomed to exist in Hell, such a one also receives a “potential” to come to know God in even a greater manner due to one’s incomprehensible sufferings. Hell "“might” be just another road to attain God. Now, since no evil exists in God, He will never lead one towards such a path.However, through suffering, Love can be fostered, and such Love is the Wisdom of God.If Love could “one Day” be forstered in Hell, it would then become superior to Heaven.
Andre
Too late!