11 Apr 2022 7:20 pm
The theme I gleaned from the early church fathers was that heaven and hell are the same - the fire that will burn those without love will cause those with love to shine.Xavier_Onassis » 11 Apr 2022, 6:13 pm » wrote: ↑I think there is the assumption that God chooses not to be in Hell.GeorgeWashington » 11 Apr 2022, 7:58 am » wrote: ↑ Are you saying there is somewhere that God isn’t?
The church fathers say that God CHOOSES not to visit Hell, although, being omnipotent, he chooses not to be in Hell where the wicked are being justly published.'
Of course this means that God is therefore not omnipresent.
This was a question debated frequently.
It was decided that despite God not choosing to visit Hell, he was still omnipresent.
One more of what is known as a "Mystery of the Faith".
Seriously!
My Latin prof and thesis advisor was a defrocked Jesuit.
He loved to discuss theological issues.
I was never a fan of the hyper-rationalization of the west.
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