The Great Divorce<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is. \u00a0And a lot of the source material is similarly allegorical. \u00a0So I don\u2019t think any conception of the afterlife that gets down to the harp-and-halos level of granularity is very likely to be accurate.<\/p>\nI don\u2019t care that much about what they\u2019re like<\/em>, not when the task of living a good life is already enough work to be going on with. \u00a0I don\u2019t find it very helpful to thing about Heaven and Hell in goal-language (\u201cWhat do I have to do to get in?\u201d) since that triggers my sneaky, gaming the system ways of thinking. \u00a0I find it more useful coherent to use consequence-language (\u201cIn what ways do I fall short of being in heaven\/sharing in the beatific vision\/being Christ-like and how can I progress toward that\u00a0fulfillment?\u201d).<\/p>\nThe Catholic church doesn\u2019t claim to be the only channel of God\u2019s grace, but it\u2019s the only one we\u2019re confident in. \u00a0So, analogously, if you had a headache, I wouldn\u2019t be sure that rubbing your temples or standing on your head\u00a0wouldn\u2019t\u00a0<\/em>work, but I\u2019d tell you I was only\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0confident<\/em>\u00a0in Advil, and that\u2019s what I recommended you take.<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u00a0 I\u2019m skipping around in JT\u2019s questions, so, today, let\u2019s take a look at #2: What parts of Catholicism do you now accept? Which do you reject? Specifically\u2026 Did Jesus rise from the dead? Do you believe in heaven and hell? If so\u2026 What are the criteria for entry into heaven? Into hell? Were you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,176],"tags":[124,192],"class_list":["post-4540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apologetics","category-conversion-2","tag-afterlife","tag-reply-to-jt-eberhard"],"yoast_head":"\n
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