J, H, H and P as spiritual

    Cards (5)

    • if purgatory exists, what must it be?
      a spiritual purging
    • if purgatory is a spiritual purging, then the concepts of heaven, hell and purgatory must be...?
      adjusted to fit with the idea that the spiritually resurrected souls 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 secure knowledge 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