{"id":52529,"date":"2014-05-16T00:38:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T07:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/?p=52529"},"modified":"2014-12-29T00:18:29","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T07:18:29","slug":"for-a-guy-who-allegedly-denies-the-possibility-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markshea\/2014\/05\/for-a-guy-who-allegedly-denies-the-possibility-of-hell.html","title":{"rendered":"For a guy who allegedly denies the possibility of Hell…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Fr. Barron sure seems to make a pretty clear case for Hell:<\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of course, he very sensibly declines to speculate on who, if anybody, is there for the simple reason that you have to be God to know that since you have to know the interior disposition of a human heart and no human can do that. But remaining agnostic on who, if anybody, is in hell is not saying \u201chell is empty\u201d or \u201chell doesn\u2019t exist\u201d. If he wanted to say \u201cHell doesn\u2019t exist\u201d, he chose a pretty funny way of doing it. Like the Tradition, he says, \u201cThe possibility of choosing to definitively exclude yourself from the life of God is real. Don\u2019t make that choice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr. Barron sure seems to make a pretty clear case for Hell: Of course, he very sensibly declines to speculate on who, if anybody, is there for the simple reason that you have to be God to know that since you have to know the interior disposition of a human heart and no human can […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-52529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-theological-reflections"],"yoast_head":"\n<title>For a guy who allegedly denies the possibility of Hell...<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Fr. 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