if purgatory is a spiritual purging, then the concepts of heaven, hell and purgatory must be...?
adjusted to fit with the idea that the spirituallyresurrectedsouls may be subject to eternal life with God in heaven or eternal suffering apart from god in hell
if heaven is a spiritual reality rather than a physical one...?
the qualities that the saved enjoy are spiritual rather than material (joy, peace and love), in the safe and secureknowledge that God is always present
in the same way, hell is understood as what?
a spiritual loss, the eternal absence of God, no source of goodness, joy or peace and endless sorrow and spiritual pain
what does Aquinas believe?
that God exists timelessly and this works better in a spiritual sense, rather than a physical one