Who Goes to Hell?

in #hell8 years ago

We don't know who goes to Hell. It's up to God to decide. We do know people have gone to Heaven: Christ, the OT saints, the Mother of God, and many other saints. However, we cannot know the population of Hell.

In any case, Hell must be chosen freely. Aborted and contracepted babies have not been allowed this choice. It would offend God's Justice to condemn a child to Hell for what is a technicality. So we might be Charitable with God (agape==caritas==charity) and assume charitably that God will be Just.

So what can God do with people who are determined to live their own lives, follow their own personal "vision"? You know, people who are too smart for the old traditional Church and too thrilling to listen to boring old priests. Saying no to God means no God for you. Our souls are eternal. Eternal also means indestructible. Yet abstaining souls must go somewhere.

God did not create Hell. Hell is the creation of sinners. It's only there because we sinners need to be put somewhere. However, we can avoid this fate. It starts with listening to the wisdom of our greatest Christians. Young people just want to listen to contemporaries. Real cool rich guys like Joel Osteen, but they are simply getting robbed. The Fathers of the Church are free to listen to.

But some of us choose not to. We have that choice. We all have the power to choose against God. God's omnipotence is trumped by our free will. Keep that fact in mind as you start your own little Baptist denomination (over 40,000 now!). You might succeed on your own, but the odds are simply not worth taking! Why not play it safe? Why not work out your salvation in fear and trembling? Is your personal "spirit vision" so clear, so irresistible?

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The way I see it - hell or heaven are NOW; they are a happening; an eternal experience of consciousness (or the "spirit", if you prefer).

"Suffering consciousnesses", if I may call it that, is the experience of a subjective hell. "Freed consciousness", as in "free from suffering", would be its opposite - the experience of subjective heaven.

In suffering consciousness, people are led by fears (of losing possessions, of enemies causing them harm, of death happening, and a million other things) and tend to try curing, or quieting, those fears by chasing desires (here "ego" may be synonymous with "Satan" - the "great deceiver"), this causes them to generally act competitively, selfishly, and greedily (actions tend to be both self-destructive and destructive to the environment). There may be a momentary feeling of satisfaction or pleasure for endeavoring in these selfish pursuits, but, ultimately, all "successes" will prove to fall short of supplying the constant state of fulfillment (wholeness) that we seek, and we inevitably find ourselves back to square one - like a rat running inside of a wheel. Suffering is endless, for as long as we continue running on this wheel (allowing the ego to run the show and make our choices).

In freed consciousness (what we may also call a "saved soul" or "salvation"), people discover the natural love that emanates from the "seed", or purest form, of consciousness (what we may call "God" or the "the Spirit" - as conscious life indeed originates from the source of consciousness). The true futility of the ego, and its games, is clearly seen from this vantage point, but only compassion is felt and expressed towards those less fortunate souls, whom still struggle to see the light. The feeling is very light and peaceful, non-judgmental, but, most importantly, the actions become selfless - for the good of the whole, as opposed to only oneself.

It's also important to point out that "good", from the vantage point of a freed soul, no longer is synonymous with "intellectually, or emotionally, satisfying", as it might be for persons being ruled by ego-games. It would rather be synonymous with "helping people to see, or experience, the light (of Truth)". The only agenda of a freed soul is to free other souls.


Been there.
Wasn't impressed