Is this Carholic?

[Bonnie]

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[FCEGM]

A quote from an anti-Catholic:

“Certainly, the fire that shall “try every man’s work of what sort it is” (I Cor 3:13) is not physical. It must be the “fire” of God’s justice, holiness, purity, and truth that exposes motives and would surely torment the conscience of the damned forever. This alone could constitute the flames in the Lake of Fire. No longer is any excuse plausible even to the most perverted…standing naked before God, the flame of His justice burns the conscience with supernatural conviction.”

His claim was that Catholics teach that the flames of purgatory & hell are physical. This is just about the only place where he gives his belief about judgment & hell.

Is this compatible with Catholic teaching? I’m having trouble finding info in the CCC.

Thanks in advance!

Bonnie, in a certain sense what he says is true; what he fails to account for, though, is that come the resurrection the bodies of the just will participate in the glory of Heaven, while the bodies of the damned will participate in the agony of Hell. So there is a physical dimension to what a person will experience whether in Heaven or Hell.