| I've had lots of ideas about the concept of | | | | for a new thought to stimulate some new |
| heaven and hell. I grew up with HELL being a | | | | thinking? So Hell is God's closest companion- a |
| PLACE- a very, very bad place. I, divine | | | | transient flash of pain urging one to return to our |
| judgementt was a place where fires burned | | | | source. |
| continually and where suffering never ended. A | | | | In essence, I see him saying that it's akin to what |
| person would spend eternity there for not giving | | | | I call "divine judgment". |
| God glory, for being bad, for not repenting, or | | | | There is no punishment, no banishment, none of |
| whatever the "Thou shall NOT" happened to be | | | | the church "control images" that bring fear. Yes |
| on the LIST for whatever denomination one | | | | there is a hell on earth and many frequent such a |
| belonged to. And I was then told that God was | | | | mental state way too often. But when it comes |
| LOVE. Strange rationalization indeed. | | | | to the eternal, spiritual life, hell is but heaven's |
| Recently I discovered yet another definition for | | | | purifying fire which strips away (from everyone- |
| HELL! | | | | ALL!) all that which is not in the nature of our |
| Christopher Bache describes hell as follows. "Hell is | | | | Source- God, Creator! |
| not heaven's opposite but the guardian at the | | | | We came from the Source of LOVE and it is to |
| door of that which heals everything". How's that | | | | that source (LOVE) we will one day ALL return! |