Imutability of will

[MaximilianK]

Hello brothers. I recognize that is verry verry hard for me to understand how a soul can receive for eternity a immutable will, and this eternal will (and state) depend of only some years lived in this world. Is shocking for me, how we should live our lives, how our lives look like now?.. The eternity depend only of 20-50 years, really really really shoking

 

[Theo520]

Just focus on how you live your 50 yrs, not the payoff.

I feel following Church teachings pays a reward in this life.

 

[Bradskii]

Hello brothers. I recognize that is verry verry hard for me to understand how a soul can receive for eternity a immutable will, and this eternal will (and state) depend of only some years lived in this world. Is shocking for me, how we should live our lives, how our lives look like now?.. The eternity depend only of 20-50 years, really really really shoking

Them’s the rules. You only get the one shot.

 

[Vico]

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What about receiving a reward for all eternity, immutably, dependent on only a few years lived in this world?

 

[Bradskii]

MaximilianK:

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What about receiving a reward for all eternity, immutably, dependent on only a few years lived in this world?

Seems like a bad deal. You could be born in a situation whereby your upbringing, your genetic inheritance, meaning your health and mental capacities, led you to making good choices. Or not.

We are not all born equal.

 

[o_mlly]

Fortunately, one’s eternal disposition depends not on one’s prior 25 or 50 years of willing but only on the last.

 

[Wesrock]

Vico:

MaximilianK:

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What about receiving a reward for all eternity, immutably, dependent on only a few years lived in this world?

Seems like a bad deal. You could be born in a situation whereby your upbringing, your genetic inheritance, meaning your health and mental capacities, led you to making good choices. Or not.

We are not all born equal.

Paraphrasing what C.S. Lewis wrote in Mere Christianity, God knows what he gave us, our strengths and our weaknesses, our temperaments and predispositions. He doesn’t judge based on a simple “works” checklist. He judges based on where we’re at.

 

[Vico]

Vico:

MaximilianK:

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What about receiving a reward for all eternity, immutably, dependent on only a few years lived in this world?

Seems like a bad deal. You could be born in a situation whereby your upbringing, your genetic inheritance, meaning your health and mental capacities, led you to making good choices. Or not.

We are not all born equal.

Certainly not, so God gives graces in various degrees to help. In fact Catholic dogma states the souls receive according to their merits either glory or punishments, to various degrees. Speculations were also made that there may be a state of natural peace without glory, after death. Imagine a Gaussian distribution with the median being hell with natural peace, and to the left (goat side) sufferings (from degrees of malice) and to the right (sheep side) glory (from degrees of love).

… the theory of limbo , understood as a state which includes the souls of infants who die subject to original sin and without baptism, and who, therefore, neither merit the beatific vision, nor yet are subjected to any punishment, because they are not guilty of any personal sin. … remains therefore a possible theological hypothesis.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/c...aith_doc_20070419_un-baptised-infants_en.html

 

[adgloriam]

Vico:

MaximilianK:

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What about receiving a reward for all eternity, immutably, dependent on only a few years lived in this world?

Seems like a bad deal. You could be born in a situation whereby your upbringing, your genetic inheritance, meaning your health and mental capacities, led you to making good choices. Or not.

We are not all born equal.

It’s not about birth condition. ← First fallacy @Bradskii
It’s not about equality of what is different ← Second fallacy @Bradskii
It’s not about appearances ← Third fallacy @Bradskii
It’s not about “your…your…” enumeration ← Unfolding fallacies @Bradskii

Your analyses would apply to social inequalities in temporal matters. (good objective realism there.)

Your analyses does not apply to Soteriology where that “focus on the temporal” doesn’t take precedence over eternal salvation. What’s your take on Lazarus @Bradskii ??