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To: Cogito who wrote (244)3/28/2007 1:01:17 AM
From: spudroberts1998  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1560
 
Allen,

I just want to know where the cut off line is. If there's a heaven and a hell, there has to be some predetermined line so that if you had just one more sin, you'd spend eternity in hell.

Let's suppose it was the last day of your life. You were 90 years old and weren't a particularly bad person but hadn't lived a stellar life either. You were right on the line between heaven and hell. If you died right then, you were going to heaven... then your wife walks in. She's not in a very good mood. She slams the door... and just as you begin to go into cardiac arrest, you blurt out "Damn it woman you startled me!". Then you croke. That one outburst was enough to put you over the top and as a result of a single sin, you get to cancel your plans to spend eternity on the finest golf course imaginable and instead slow roast over hot coals while somebody's poking you with a pitch fork. Seems kind of unfair to me. You get the same punishment as some guy that molested 100 kids, shot 5 police officers, and died as a heroin junkie. Where's the justice in that?

Dante's Inferno tried to solve this problem by inventing "9 levels of hell". This doesn't really work either but the Pope doesn't buy into it anyway. He's saying that hell is an actual, physical place.

I wonder if we can see it with the Hubble telescope?