during the apologetics session a few mths back, they clarified abt heaven and hell. and purgatory. heaven and hell are final destinations. once in, u can't get out. purgatory is a place of penitence and by its very nature, temporary. so i asked - why would our compassionate and loving God allow any soul to enter a place of eternal despair and suffering (i.e. hell, in case u were wondering)?
someone told me to read CS Lewis' The Great Divorce... and i did. a mth or two ago. didn't think much abt it then but it's all starting to come back to me now. ok la the trigger was Paradise Lost. it's sooo hard to read omg epic poetry is O.o i like read halfway and i realize my mind has wondered off and i didn't grasp the few lines i was reading at all and i have to reread it again. anyway in the great divorce, they suggested the idea that it is really our own choice. the sins we commit in life makes the journey to heaven painful for a soul. nevertheless, the soul still ultimately has a choice. no one is condemned. or rather, all who are condemned chooses their condemnation.
hm not very sure if i completely grasped his idea but it was smth like that i think.
ahhhh yes and the controversy of the final destination. he solves this by suggesting that heaven and hell cannot coexist in a soul (lolz so we have a hell soul and a heaven soul when we are alive?). so when a soul enters heaven, the goodness of heaven works backward all the way into his life on earth, so that his experience on earth becomes an extension of heaven. and this is the same for the converse: the evil of hell works backwards so that the soul's life on earth focuses on his suffering and his pain.
such interesting ideas right.
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during the apologetics session a few mths back, they clarified abt heaven and hell. and purgatory. heaven and hell are final destinations. once in, u can't get out. purgatory is a place of penitence and by its very nature, temporary. so i asked - why would our compassionate and loving God allow any soul to enter a place of eternal despair and suffering (i.e. hell, in case u were wondering)?
someone told me to read CS Lewis' The Great Divorce... and i did. a mth or two ago. didn't think much abt it then but it's all starting to come back to me now. ok la the trigger was Paradise Lost. it's sooo hard to read omg epic poetry is O.o i like read halfway and i realize my mind has wondered off and i didn't grasp the few lines i was reading at all and i have to reread it again. anyway in the great divorce, they suggested the idea that it is really our own choice. the sins we commit in life makes the journey to heaven painful for a soul. nevertheless, the soul still ultimately has a choice. no one is condemned. or rather, all who are condemned chooses their condemnation.
hm not very sure if i completely grasped his idea but it was smth like that i think.
ahhhh yes and the controversy of the final destination. he solves this by suggesting that heaven and hell cannot coexist in a soul (lolz so we have a hell soul and a heaven soul when we are alive?). so when a soul enters heaven, the goodness of heaven works backward all the way into his life on earth, so that his experience on earth becomes an extension of heaven. and this is the same for the converse: the evil of hell works backwards so that the soul's life on earth focuses on his suffering and his pain.
such interesting ideas right.