Is This All There Is? page 170
Monday, April 7, 2025
Spirituality: Gerhard Lohfink, For the One who does not Want the Truth
Suppose there is a person who does not want the truth, but lies, and lives a lie to the depth of his or her existence, someone who says I am enough for myself. I am my own meaning. I desire only myself, myself alone. If there are such people with the fundamental choice of their existence to seek only themselves and reject God and everything else, God must leave them to themselves, to their own closed mess within the soul. God cannot overpower them. God certainly cannot assault them. Such a person would then have really nothing but his or her own self, and that, precisely, would be hell.
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I know sad people like that. I want everyone to know and love Christ. Free will allows them to say no. I wonder what they think happens when they die, is that the end, in their opinion? They are missing out on joy!
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