People "go to hell" by being so fearful they can't let themselves experience heaven.
It is their fear of Hell that confines them "there."
It is their fear of Hell that confines them "there."
Virtue is its own reward.
Vice is its own punishment.
When people shun evil for fear of Hell's punishment, they do not "inherit heaven."
Often, the best they manage is the avoidance of Hell.
And typically, the avoidance itself is hellish.
The virtues that "inherit heaven" are their own reward.
They are seldom evoked by ulterior motives.
The left hand must not know what the right hand is doing.
The "happening" of heaven is in the making of heaven
Heaven is a direct consequence -- an effusive epiphenomenon -- of damn-the-torpedoes, don't-look-back Goodness, done chiefly in service to others and disproportionately in service to those who don't "deserve" it.
When people shun evil for fear of Hell's punishment, they do not "inherit heaven."
Often, the best they manage is the avoidance of Hell.
And typically, the avoidance itself is hellish.
The virtues that "inherit heaven" are their own reward.
They are seldom evoked by ulterior motives.
The left hand must not know what the right hand is doing.
The "happening" of heaven is in the making of heaven
Heaven is a direct consequence -- an effusive epiphenomenon -- of damn-the-torpedoes, don't-look-back Goodness, done chiefly in service to others and disproportionately in service to those who don't "deserve" it.
"God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love."
1 John, Chapter 4
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