'And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.'
This passage has always given me chills whenever I read it. It's not God who creates the "great gulf fixed", it's the difference between those who choose to do good and those who choose to do evil. Like the evil we have all witnessed in the starvation murder of Terri. Evil like that can never be bridged and Michael Schiavo knows it deep in that black hole he has for a heart. So does Golum Felos the Energizer Demon-bunny for Death and George Greer, the filthy lawyer in a black robe who deemed himself worthy to play God and execute an innocent angel who never harmed anyone. . In the end Justice will prevail. The clever ones aren't so clever, they've convicted themselves. May their consciences be forever seared.
Once the devil's done using youfor whatever you've sacrificed, he discards you like old fishwrap, and whatever promises he made are just lies. Remember Judas Iscariot. In Gibson's "The Passion," the "children" that teased him represented the torment of demons.