It's settled: Hell is real.
- Thread starter Turok
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The Pope is out of his mind. Vindictive justice is not compatible with the God of love and compassion revealed in the New Testament. An eternal Hell also contradicts the Christian assertion of the final victory of God over evil.
Next up, the Pope's going to issue an edict
proclaiming that there's really no Purgatory
- you poor Sinners are going straight to Hell!!
proclaiming that there's really no Purgatory
- you poor Sinners are going straight to Hell!!
"Locked forever in a small room with two other people"
â Jean-Paul Sartre, "Closed Doors"
Me, Z and Bond. OMFG, hell ain't the word for it.:eek:
â Jean-Paul Sartre, "Closed Doors"
Me, Z and Bond. OMFG, hell ain't the word for it.:eek:
By clicking on the link you read --
the new Catholic catechism, which holds that hell is a "state of eternal separation from God," to be understood "symbolically rather than physically."
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, a Church historian, said that the Pope was "right to remind us that Hell is not something to be put on one side" as an inconvenient or embarrassing aspect of belief.
It had been misused in the Middle Ages to scare the impressionable with "horrific visions" of damnation, as described in Danteâs "Inferno."
In the link above
the Pope also mentioned that Limbo is only a theory.
the new Catholic catechism, which holds that hell is a "state of eternal separation from God," to be understood "symbolically rather than physically."
Agostino Paravicini Bagliani, a Church historian, said that the Pope was "right to remind us that Hell is not something to be put on one side" as an inconvenient or embarrassing aspect of belief.
It had been misused in the Middle Ages to scare the impressionable with "horrific visions" of damnation, as described in Danteâs "Inferno."
In the link above
the Pope also mentioned that Limbo is only a theory.
Does "go to hell" still means what it means?