When a person dies, there are 4 possibilities & they are effective immediately:
1) Heaven - for pure souls who died in acceptance of God 2) Hell - for impure souls who rejected God 3) Purgatory - for redeemed souls who die in acceptance of God, but whose souls need just a little more saving. Purgatory is the prep school for heaven. A little bit more punishment will occur here and then Jesus (or God himself, depending on which faith you follow) will release the person to Heaven at an unknown date. 4) Limbo - for those souls who do not have earthly / wilful / mortal sins, but have not been freed from original sin. This includes unbaptized babies, non Christians who have not known Jesus or God etc. After the second coming, there will be a Judgment day. All those who are dead will become undead / ressurected and their souls will be re-united with their bodies. God will then pronounce judgement. (Long line of good guys to His right, and bad 'uns to His left). 1) Those who were already in Heaven will remain in Heaven, except that their bodies are re-united with them, so they will be able to feel the physical pleasures of Heaven as well. 2) Those who were already in hell will remain in hell, except that their bodies will now be able to experience the pains of hell fully. 3) Those who are in purgatory will be released to Heaven (finally - unless they had been released earlier). 4) Those who are in limbo have no prescribed path. 5) Those who are alive will be sorted immediately. It is unclear if they will first die, then be resurrected before judgment is pronounced or whether this red-tape will be deemed unnecessary. The nature of Heaven and Hell are very clear even before judgment day. IE - they are not simply holding cells for future pains or pleasures. Pains and pleasures will be immediate upon death, but will not be felt in a physical / bodily form until after Judgment. Hope this clears things up & helps in making your choices. Anjana. ----- Original Message ---- From: ashok _ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 2:51:54 AM Subject: Re: [silk] Thou shall not be disgustingly rich On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote: > > The Catechism of the Catholic Church states that "immediately after > > death the souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend into > > Hell". > > But, but, but, don't souls supposedly just float around until > judgement day, when they can expected to get sorted into heaven or > hell? Or have the procedures changed? Are the powers that be tiring of > waiting for the day? > they have waiting rooms called 'purgatory', 'limbo' and 'hell'. though hell has always sounded like the most entertaining one. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
