Is Hell...?

October 26, 2007

#24

drevyev wrote:

funkystuf31 wrote:

As God is "everywhere and fillest all things," there is truly no way that God could be absent from such a place.

Why do we say, then, in the next line, "Come and abide in us"? Doesn't that imply that the Heavenly King is not already in us? If hell is separation from God, then this prayer sounds to me like we are already separated from God before we say the prayer.

Sorry for the tangent.

I think it is in the sense that just as the Spirit fills the rest of creation, we want it to fill us. Just as it fills us during certain sacraments and sacramentals--Unction, Orders, even in the sense that Christ fills us when we partake of the Eucharist.

I find it amazing how so many unbelievers think that Hell is just going to be one great big party. If so, it is one I certainly would not want to crash.

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