Heaven--a Catholic Philosopher Answers the Pointed Sorts of Questions People Ask about It

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  1. If we have emotions in Heaven, why won’t we be sad about those we loved who are in hell?
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We know there is no sadness in Heaven: God “will wipe away every tear from their eyes” (Rev. 7:17). I think we will not be sad about the damned for the same reason God is not. According to the Sermon on the Mount, he will say to them, “I never knew you” (Matt. 7:23). God will wipe our memories clean. This is not falsehood or ignorance, but truth, for in a sense, the damned no longer are—that is, they no longer are in the most real place of all, Heaven. They no longer count. They are like ashes, not like wood. They once were fully human, fully alive, real men and women. But hell is a place not of eternal life but of eternal death. We do not love or weep over ashes; we only love or weep over the thing that existed before it was burnt
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I don’t count here and I won’t count there. I’m forgotten here and I’ll be forgotten there. 😦 :sad_yes::bighanky:
 
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