Personally, I believe that after a person dies, they meet with God and see what He's all about. Basically see that He is love and He is goodness and truth. And upon doing so, the person gets kind of a "last chance" to choose one of 2 paths... either reject God (meaning they are rejecting love), or humble themselves to Him and to an existence of love and goodness, and become genuinely repentant of all wrongdoings. They get to consciously, and with full awareness, choose between good and evil.
This isn't any sort of official Church teaching or anything like that, but it has been suggested as a possibility by some theologians, and it makes the most sense to me. I may be wrong, of course, but it seems to me personally that if God loves us He would give us that last chance to make a final choice between good and evil, with all the information we need. And it would also be beneficial to the people who have never heard of God or who honestly can't bring themselves to believe He is real.
Evilness is the absence of good, and so if someone chooses the path of evil, they will find themselves in the only place/state of being/other-dimension-we-don't-know-about where goodness is completely absent, and that is Hell.
This isn't any sort of official Church teaching or anything like that, but it has been suggested as a possibility by some theologians, and it makes the most sense to me. I may be wrong, of course, but it seems to me personally that if God loves us He would give us that last chance to make a final choice between good and evil, with all the information we need. And it would also be beneficial to the people who have never heard of God or who honestly can't bring themselves to believe He is real.
Evilness is the absence of good, and so if someone chooses the path of evil, they will find themselves in the only place/state of being/other-dimension-we-don't-know-about where goodness is completely absent, and that is Hell.
"Of course, everyone will claim they respect someone who tries to speak the truth, but in reality, this is a rare quality. Most respect those who speak truths they agree with, and their respect for the speaking only extends as far as their realm of personal agreement. It is less common, almost to the point of becoming a saintly virtue, that someone truly respects and loves the truth seeker, even when their conclusions differ wildly."
-walsh
-walsh
