stuck in hell

[Didacus]

Wishing to go to Heaven does not guarantee you will.

Final judgement on mortal sin belongs to God alone, adn I will not speculate on His divine judgement.

[quote name='Raphael' post='1015695' date='Jul 1 2006, 08:34 AM']
The answer is no. There are no choices presented to anyone after this life, thus, although you still have the faculty of the will, you cannot choose anything. Once you are in hell, the choice between heaven and hell has already been made. The same goes if you are in heaven.

This does not conflict with God's justice. No one in hell will want to go to heaven; it would be too hot for them. One of my professors says, "hell is hot, but heaven is hotter; the difference is that those who make it to heaven can stand the greater heat of God's love, while those who choose hell are sent there out of God's mercy, so that they don't burn up in the heat of His heavenly love for all eternity. Thus, God's mercy and justice are reconciled in the afterlife. Those who go to hell get what they deserve, what they choose, and what's best for them."
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hey Rap, I never looked at it that way but that makes perfect sense to me.

One question though, now that I read the posts (I usually vote and post my first comment after I vote on a poll);

If outside of this life we are in effect outside of time and thus cannot change; how is it that the devil was able to change and turn from God?

I know the proper anwser a little bit but can't formulate it very well. God created light, saw that it was good, and then seperated the light from the darkness and thus the devil has sinned since the very beggining... pretty sure that has something to do with it.

[Guest JeffCR07]

The angels, precisely because they are eternal, make one eternal choice - for or against God. Think of it like this: The angels either say "I will for all my subsequent actions to be in accord with God's will" or they say "I will for all my subsequent actions to be against the will of God." The very nature of what they have chosen precludes any possibility of altering that choice or repenting from that decision.

Your Brother In Christ,

Jeff