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 Chapter 5  We Believe in
                   Heaven,  Hell 
                   and Purgatory
                           (continued)

354-364  Part 2 Hell

354-355 Section 1 Entry 
                 into Hell
      
356-358  Section 2 
                 Who is in Hell?

359
  Section 3 Images of Hell 

360-361  Section 4 What do
                 You do or 
                 Have in Hell?

362-363  Section 5 What do 
                You not do
                 or Have in Hell?

364  Section What Feelings
        You Will Have in Hell?      
  

  Sidenotes

  (143)  CCC 1033
  (144) IGL 443:48-51
  (145) IGL 123:16-21
  (146) IGL 492:45-46,54-55
  (147) IGL 123:16-17
            and 204:6

  (148) IGL 528:30
  (149) IGL 437:60-62
  (150) IGL 445:34-39
  (151) CCC 1033
  (152) IGL 492:70-71
  (153) IGL 524:37-49
  (154) CCC 1033
             footnote 611 cf
             Gospel of Matthew 
             25:31-46

  (155) IGL 264:13-18
            see also 271:33-35

  (156) IGL 123:19,
            437:60-63 and
            445:34-39

  (157) CCC 1034
             Footnote 612
             Cf Matthew 5:22, 29, 
             10:28, 13:42,50,
              Mark 9:43-48

  (158) IGL 123:19
             see also 204:6

  (159) IGL 492:59
  (160) IGL 123:19,
             and 528:23-25

  (161) IGL 528:23-25
  (162) IGL 470:20-24 this second part of an image is used to describe hell. The first part of the image has a women forgetting all about the pain of childbirth (our suffering and death on Earth) as she holds her living child at her breast.  Heaven is like this only a “zillion times” more happier. 470:10-19

  (163) IGL 183:29-31
  (164) IGL 528:23-25
  (165) IGL 425:7-9
             see also 123:19 
             and 427:37-40

  (166) IGL 313:8-9
  (167) IGL 492:56
  (168) IGL 427:37-40
  (169) IGL 528:22
  (170) IGL 492:60-63
  (171) IGL 427:37-40 
            see also 445:34-39

  (172) CCC 1034 footnote 614
            Gospel of Matthew 25:41

  (173) CCC 1035
  (174) PR/P 357 quote 153
            IGL 524:37-39 

  (175) IGL 492:67-68 
            see also 104:14-16

  (176) IGL 492:57-58
            see also 427:41

  (177) IGL 123:16-17
  (178) IGL 227:56-57
  (179) IGL 492:65-66
  (180) IGL 492:54-55 
            and 528:21-22

  (181) IGL 427:42
  (182) IGL 492:57-58
  (183) IGL 339:25

How does In God's Love 
written by Janet Hurlow
relate to
the Catholic Faith ?

  Chapter 5  We Believe in Heaven, Hell and Purgatory
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Part 2 Hell 
                     
Section 1 Entry Into Hell

354         Before reading any further in “The Presentation,” I would encourage the reader to reread one of In God’s Love’s best passages on hell which is passage # 492 Heaven and Hell.  When defining hell, the Catechism states that it is by our own choice that we go there: “To die in mortal sin without repenting and accepting God's merciful love means remaining separated from him forever by our own free choice. This state of definitive self-exclusion from communion with God and the blessed is called ‘hell.’”(143)   The authors of In God’s Love agree that it is we who condemn ourselves, for they write, “God is real.  He is your Father who loves you, real and true.  Not one soul does He condemn to Hell.  All those who do not take God seriously take themselves to this bad place.”(144)  
 
355           According to the messengers, those who go to hell are abandoned by Satan and live in a world of suffering:  “All you foolish see Satan’s sad, dark world.  Rest not.  He abandons you in his crafty web.  Such pain, such darkness, such dirt and suffocating heat man hates and does not reach for.  Very foolish are you who do not seek God’s love”(145)   They also state that “When you fall into his (Satan’s) clutches forever, things get serious.  Then you see him face to face as he really is….If you listen to the evil one, you will come face to face with hate.”(146)

                      Section 2  Who is in Hell?

356           Who is in hell?  According to the messengers the foolish people are in hell,(147)  and they become Satan’s slaves.(148)   There is nothing but lost souls in hell.(149)   Those who have not put their trust in God, but in themselves and other things are in hell: “Those who have trusted in themselves and other things will travel to another place where God’s protection will be over.  Those poor souls will spend eternity in an empty world of darkness, where they will hear the moans of other lost souls who have believed in an empty, dark god.”(150)   
 
357           Those who have rejected God will be in hell.  The Catechism states that “We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love him.”(151)   The messengers echo this sentiment: “Those who do not accept God on Earth will not be able to have Him when they cross over.”(152)   Why is this so?  The messengers reply, “He (God) does not live in a soul that does not want Him.  God does not enter Hell.   That is a place where God has been rejected.  He does not want to go there.  He could go there if He desired because God can do all things, but He does not interfere with a spirit’s freewill, and every spirit who enters those gates is a spirit who has rejected God and decided to strike out on his/her own.  All those who have taken this path have made a decision while on the Earth.  God does not desire to go or stay where He is not wanted.”(153)

358           Those who do not love their neighbor, those who do not live a virtuous life, will be in hell.  As the Catechism states, “Our Lord warns us that we shall be separated from him if we fail to meet the serious needs of the poor and the little ones who are his brethren.”(154)   In a similar way, the messengers warn us that those who do not live a life of virtue, will go to hell: “In this, it is written: ‘In white garments, enter at the gate.  In this wedding feast, if anyone is not clothed in virtue, soiled is his robe on Earth.  His soul is not in God’s Spirit, and his spirit is cast out, never again to take this journey.”(155)  

                      Section 3 Images of Hell

359           According to the messengers, hell is an empty world filled with darkness.(156)   The Catechism cites Scripture as describing “Gehenna” as very hot.  “Jesus often speaks of ‘Gehenna’ of ‘the unquenchable fire’ reserved for those who to the end of their lives refuse to believe and be converted, where both soul and body can be lost.”(157)   The messengers echo the assessment of Jesus and the Church: “Such pain, such darkness, such dirt and suffocating heat” are in hell.(158)   Hell is also “filled with foul odor and smoke.”(159)   There is dirt and filth in hell.(160)   In short, everything that mankind hates will be there: “His (Satan’s) kingdom is a place where all disease and filth shall be locked away; all the things mankind loathes will be there.”(161)

                      Section 4 What do You do or Have in Hell?

360           In hell there will be death, disease and pain.  Death will be a constant reality for those who are in hell:  “Woe to you who do not love God.  You are like a woman who has endured the pains of childbirth, and your baby is lying dead in your arms.  You have suffered the pain and have found only sadness and death as your reward.”(162)   What is eternal death?  The messengers state, “Eternal death is life without God’s love.  In such a way, man seeks not to live.  Sons of man, you do not wake from such a dream of horror.”(163)    In hell, the messengers say there will be diseases.(164)   One of the worst things about disease is the pain it inflicts on us.  Those who are in hell will be in much pain.  The messengers are puzzled at the choice of mankind to reject God: “Why do you insist on going to a place where you will suffer the most excruciating pain, more pain then you have ever known?”(165)  

361           For those who are in hell there will be violence, torture, and suffering that will not end.  The messengers express their sorrow: “O foolish Earth creatures, sorrow inscribes her torture on you forever.”(166)   “Every scary thing will possess your being.”(167)   In hell there will be a constant struggle.(168)   Hell is Satan’s kingdom and “he will rule with violence and hate.”(169)   “Women will be raped over and over, and men will find no pleasure in their attacks.  Satan will laugh and laugh.  So wickedly, he will laugh.”(170)   Worst of all, this place is forever: “This is also a real place where people are asleep and cannot wake from a horrible nightmare of pain and struggle”(171)

                      Section 5 What do You not do or Have in hell? 

362           What will the damned not have in hell?  God is not in hell.  Citing Jesus in Scripture, the Catechism proclaims, “Jesus solemnly proclaims that…he will pronounce the condemnation: "Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire!"(172)   It also proclaims that “the chief punishment of hell is eternal separation from God, in whom alone man can possess the life and happiness for which he was created and for which he longs.(173)   As noted earlier(174)  the messengers assert that God is not in hell because God chooses not to go there.  The messengers bluntly state the reality of the absence of God in hell: “People will say there is no God because, for them, He will be no more.”(175)  

363           In addition to not having God in their reality of hell, those who are in hell will not have love, or rest.  The messengers write that in hell people “will be unloved and uncared for in a dark and confusing place.”(176)    In contrast to heaven where saints can rest in peace, in hell the messengers say there is not any rest: “All you foolish, see Satan’s sad, dark world.  Rest not.”(177)  “In his (Satan’s) spirit, you cannot rest, and what creature does not seek rest?”(178)    Death, as a separation from God and all that is life, is what the damned will have in hell.  Death can also be seen as the end, a way to stop experiencing the reality you are experiencing.  Death can be the end of being.  This end the damned will not have in hell, but those in hell we will long for it.  After writing about the horrors that the damned will experience in hell, the messengers write, “Mankind (who are in hell) will wish death upon themselves, but there will be no more death.”(179)  

                      Section 6 What Feelings You Will Have in Hell? 

364           What feelings will those in hell have?  Surrounded by hate and violence(180)  those in hell will be in “great fear for all eternity”(181)   They will be in a state of constant confusion.(182)   The messengers profoundly state that “Sadness covers his (Satan’s) kingdom.”(183)   According to Jesus, the Church, and the messengers, hell sounds like a place to be avoided at all costs.

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