Posts tagged hell
Let my children hear music!
Anonymous asked:
I find it hard to believe that someone could be sent to hell for jerking off.
So do I! In fact, I find it hard to believe that anyone could be “sent” to Hell at all.
My understanding is that Hell is not so much a place as a state of final and permanent self-exclusion from God’s love. Check out the Catechism (1033) for the exact teaching of the Church. Basically, if we do not love God perfectly (tall order, I know), we cannot enter into the perfect state of communion with Him that is Heaven. Which is why I, for one, am quite thankful for Purgatory.
You and I and all of us are in time, which means that we are never at any moment the whole of ourselves. What we were last year, what we shall be next year, all belongs to our total being; but last year has gone and next year has not arrived. There is never a moment when we are all there. We possess our being, the philosophers say, successively. Not so God. All that He is, He possesses in one single act of Being. Eternity does not mean everlasting time, time open at both ends, so that however far you go back into the past there is no beginning, however far you go forward in the future, there is no end. Eternity is not time at all. It is God’s total possession of Himself.
Frank Sheed, Theology for Beginners
This blew my mind.
(via whydoikeepcounting)
