I don’t know. I really don’t. I’m still working through the reading assignments.
Trying to understand supernatural things and concepts using my limited natural world tools and understanding is hard for me. I admit that my limited writing skills don’t help much, either.
That post was me thinking out loud about the spiritual world and metaphysical things I’ve been reading about using what little I know about physical world math and science.
The principle of polarity suggests that for there to be a Heaven, there must also be a hell, which also suggests there could or would be an in between, a boundary/ border area that’s neither.
The ‘in-between’ could be what this life is, but I’ve also read a little about Purgatory.
I also wonder what happens to those with good hearts, but were “luke warm” in life, perhaps having been misguided or whatever. They’re neither good enough for Heaven, nor evil/bad enough for the depths of hell, or so I wonder.
Otoh, I’ve read that there are some souls who after death refuse Jesus’ offer of Heaven, preferring Satan in death just as they did in life.
I’ve also read that Jesus also rescues souls from hell in the afterlife, just as He rescues us from our personal hells in this life.
Anywho...hell is pretty scary to me and these, like all of my posts here regardless of the subject, are just me thinking/babbling out loud, but hopefully with a curious and more sensitive heart, with ears less dull, and eyes less dim.
Thanks for the help!
I think sin is way beyond a simple stain on the soul.
It has corrupted us and creation to our core. It is part of our very nature and it kills and while the blood/death of Jesus allows God to judicially pardon us and then relate to us, or treat us, as if we had never sinned, we are not free from the sin until we die.
Those forgiven have been given a new spiritual nature that is sin free and both natures now indwell the body we inhabit, When we die, the old nature is gone and the new sinless nature remains, fir to be in God’s presence immediately. However, for those not forgiven by God, they carry their sin forever.
And while we live here, they are at war within us. (Romans 7)
All creation groans longing to be released from its bondage to sin.
I am out of town for the weekend and do not have access to all my files or I would post the verses. It’s in Romans 8.
We graduations of sin and think that some is worse than others, but to God, disobedience is disobedience.
James deals with that in chapter 2. Scripture says that the soul that sins will die and in the case of Adam and Eve, all they did was eat a piece of fruit.
So in God’s eyes, that one sin was enough to condemn them to put them under the penalty of death. So if it’s one sin or many, a person is still condemend.
That’s the beauty of Christ’s atonement. It takes care of all our sin and forgives it completely. No matter what it is.