Pope Francis says, "They are not punished, those who repent obtain the forgiveness of God and enter the rank of souls who contemplate him, but those who do not repent and cannot therefore be forgiven disappear. There is no hell, there is the disappearance of sinful souls."
Interesting. I wonder where he pulls the term "disappearance" from. Could it be he has read this book,
"Disappearance Of The Universe"?
The book is a transcript of a series of conversations over a nine year period, beginning in 1992.
It describes two worlds that cannot co-exist: reality and imaginary.
Technically speaking, the imaginary world does not really exist, as you would expect.
However, if functions as an experience for any mind that prefers to believe in it, while disbelieving in reality.
It is this imagination, plus this belief, that forms the foundation of all material worlds, including all "parallel" universes of material worlds.
And this...drumroll please...is hell.
So technically, the Pope is right. There is no hell.
However, hell is definitely something that is experienced as reality by anyone who is able to read this post. If you can read this post, you are in hell.
The question then goes to: Is this a punishment or not?
Technically no. It is not a punishment. It is a CONSEQUENCE of believing (imagination) versus knowing (reality).
Nor is it anything that must be forgiven by God, who, technically speaking, does not condemn.
Hell functions as a self-condemnation, and only needs to be forgiven by it's participants.
God does not participate, so, no forgiveness necessary.
The only thing that can't repent are things that are not true.
Yes, there are entire "souls" that are not true. So no, they will not be "saved".
What is true
can repent.
But i would not describe it as a "soul" as much as "spirit" and/or "reality".
Maybe it could be called "Christ". That is the only thing being saved.
Reality saved from imagination. The truth saved from lies. Spirit saved from material.
Oh yah. What happens to hell? It disappears, back to the empty, null, nothing, "void" from which it came.
Clue: "From dust it came, to dust it returns". You learned that on Ash Wednesday.
That's basically it in a nutshell.
You wanted to know the basis of my beliefs. Now you know.