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John Roxandich's avatar

What a fantastic image flooded into my mind at the end! You've prompted something terrifying in my mind.

I imagine in the new heaven and earth after that bodily resurrection where the world remains divided between those whose carnal desires have tethered them to a misaligned relation of "breath to dust" and those whose new, recast unities delight in the revelation of God's life in the new earth.

Do the blessed remember the cursed? Do they see them roaming about in the deep carverns and tempestuous waters moaning, and gnashing teeth while the blessed do the work once meant for Adam to start of divinizing creation? Do their high terraces have the view of the rotting fleshing and darkened brows of the cursed ones? Do the blessed weep for them with mercy and love but praise God for his justice and love?

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David Joseph Brodeur's avatar

What if I am both a pleasure-seeker and a pain-avoider, while also both too proud and too unfaithful to God, unable and unwilling to ask truthfully for mercy? What hope is there for sinners so depraved?

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