 Pope John Paul II confirmed the doctrine of the Second Vatican Council from the 1960's that hell is a state of mind rather than a place, it "is the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy.  Go to Hell: A Heated History of the Underworld - Sayfa 54Chuck Crisafulli, Kyra Thompson tarafından - 2010 - 336 sayfaSınırlı önizleme - Bu kitap hakkında
 | C. Seymour - 2000 - 232 sayfa
...from the deprivation of God." A few days later, Pope John Paul II told an audience at the Vatican that "rather than a place, hell indicates the state of...freely and definitively separate themselves from God." To describe this Godforsaken condition, the pontiff said, the Bible "uses a symbolical language" that... | |
 | Thomas W. Petrisko - 2000 - 222 sayfa
...longings, "the state of supreme, definitive happiness." On the other hand, Hell was, the Pope said, the state of those who "freely and definitively separate themselves" from God. "Damnation", said John Paul II, was the state "freely chosen by the human person and confirmed with... | |
 | Keven Brown, Eberhard Von Kitzing - 2001 - 310 sayfa
...unfolded."13 In another move on the side of science and reason, Pope John Paul II recently declared that "rather than a place, hell indicates the state of...freely and definitively separate themselves from God." He added that hell is "not a punishment imposed externally by God" but the natural consequence of the... | |
 | Joel Black - 2002 - 300 sayfa
...physical place," Pope John Paul II told pilgrims visiting Rome in the summer of 1999; rather, it "is the state of those who freely and definitively separate...themselves from God, the source of all life and joy." 8 This wasn't to say that hell wasn't real; the Pope insisted it was. Its reality, however, was not... | |
 | Ethan Walker - 2003 - 294 sayfa
...resulting from attitudes and actions which people adopt in this life. More than a physical place, hell is the state of those who freely and definitively separate...themselves from God, the source of all life and joy. When the word "eternal" or "everlasting" appears in the sayings of Jesus, it is the from the Greek... | |
 | Francisco Radecki, Dominic Radecki - 2004 - 692 sayfa
......Pope John Paul II made headlines by saying that hell should not be seen as a fiery underworld, but as the 'state of those who freely and definitively separate...themselves from God, the source of all life and joy.' As much as that seemed like a departure from Church beliefs, the pope's words weren't all that new.... | |
 | 790 sayfa
...the Second Vatican Council from the 1960's that hell is a state of mind rather than a place, it "is the state of those who freely and definitively separate...themselves from God, the source of all life and joy." This emasculation of the punishment for sin has not meant that moral behavior has become anything less... | |
 | Tyron Inbody - 2005 - 434 sayfa
...clouds but a living and personal relationship with the Holy Trinity." Hell is not a physical place but "the state of those who freely and definitively separate themselves from God, the source of all life and joy."51 Any Godforsaken condition is hell. Even Jesus knew this experience ("he descended into hell"),... | |
 | Neale Donald Walsch - 2006 - 336 sayfa
...care should be taken not to misinterpret the images of hell in Sacred Scripture, and explained that "rather than a place, hell indicates the state of...themselves from God, the source of all life and joy." I believe that the Pope was inspired directly by Deity in the making of these statements. He surely... | |
 | Frederick A. Stoutland, Sr. - 2006 - 488 sayfa
...Paul II who, in 1999, told Roman Catholics that hell should not be seen as a fiery underworld but as "the state of those who freely and definitively separate...themselves from God; the source of all life and joy." To me, he suggests a rather benign picture of the future for non-believers. Jonathan Edwards would... | |
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