JHHP as spiritual

• For those who believe in resurrection as spiritual rather than physical, ideas of judgement, heaven, hell and purgatory as physical realities do not make sense
• Many Christians understand them as spiritual realities
• Modern Catholic thinking understands heaven, hell and purgatory as spiritual rather than physical realities
• Heaven is a spiritual state
• Hell is not a physical realm of torture. It results from the deliberate choice of mortal sin without repentance and refusing God's offer of forgiveness
• Purgatory is not a place
• Youcat 161: 'Hell is the condition of everlasting separation from God, the absolute absence of love'
• Other Christians reject the idea of particular and general judgement, because that is the language of space and time, which ends at death
• There can only be one spiritual judgement, which takes place at death. For the same reason, they reject belief in purgatory