RE: HELL
September 1, 2015 at 10:45 am
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2015 at 10:46 am by Homeless Nutter.)
(September 1, 2015 at 10:37 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: There's nothing in Catholic doctrine that says Hell is a "punishment" God casts on us. [...]
Ahem...
From Catechism of the Catholic Church:
Quote:1034 Jesus often speaks of "Gehenna" of "the unquenchable fire" reserved for those who to the end of their lives refuse to believe and be converted, where both soul and body can be lost.612 Jesus solemnly proclaims that he "will send his angels, and they will gather . . . all evil doers, and throw them into the furnace of fire,"613 and that he will pronounce the condemnation: "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire!"614http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_P2O.HTM
1035 The teaching of the Church affirms the existence of hell and its eternity. Immediately after death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into hell, where they suffer the punishments of hell, "eternal fire."615 The chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
