Shoshana:
If there are different levels of hell as described by St Faustina and St John Bosco, well, the same is true of heaven. We will get we deserve in heaven or hell…a brand new pair of jeans for a six-year old is just as gratefully accepted by him as a new pair of jeans for a 16 year old. And this could even be said true of at my age!
Dear Soshana
Hello, I hope you are well.
Hell is not comparable with Heaven. Satan being the exact opposite of God. (satan being not the Creator but a destroyer/corruptor of souls, not good but evil etc) Hell, satan and all the evils spirits being all that God is not.
So in Heaven we spend eternity contemplating, living, adoring, praising, and loving all that God is, in hell souls endure evil for all eternity.
Those who would deem themselves first in heaven may find themselves last! That doesn’t physically equate to a level, more that it eqautes to the state of the soul for all eternity.
We speak of the state of the soul here in this life and we strive to achieve a Christ-like state of soul in that we are re-created into His likeness. We talk of mortal sin and the state of the soul carrying such an unabsolved sin.
The late Pontiff Pope John Paul II wrote about heaven not being a physicality as we perceive it but rather a state of soul and this I believe is true. We are to have a glorified body if we make it to heaven, but we do not know the nature of that body. I believe it is possible to have a spiritual body, well anything is possible with God!
I have pondered this and I believe that the body is a perceptible body but not a body as we have presently. A body that is perceptible as being a body wherein the spirit resides and is perceptible by spirit to others in heaven. I think this ‘state’ of soul reveals the merits of the soul, but doesn’t cease the soul from being fully part of heaven. The reward Christ Jesus grants is the reward in the ‘state’ of the soul, I suppose this could be referred to as a kind of level, but not in proximity to the Beatific Vision
I cannot accept that some of those who go to heaven will never see God. They may as well be in hell. I would say it is counter to Catholic teaching to say such a thing as there are people in heaven who will not see God. I think this is some errant theological pondering someone has stumbled upon and thinks it might be a goer. It isn’t a goer for me!
God is Merciful and Kind, He is LOVE. He wants His children with Him, He does not want them apart from Him and He wants them with Him for all eternity, to live forever with Him in the company of Him and all of the heavenly court.
I’m sorry I have to disagree with you.
God Bless you and much love and peace to you
Teresa