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Can I Ask God to Extinguish My Consciousness?
Tagged with: angels, animal afterlife, animals, annihilationism, death, eternal now, eternity, heaven, hell, the afterlife, time and space
Posted in The Afterlife
Posted in The Afterlife
Can We Trust Anything Near-Death Experiencers Say?
Not long ago a reader named David submitted a Spiritual Conundrum to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life asking about near-death experiences (NDEs), why they’re so contradictory, and whether we can trust anything near-death experiencers (NDEers) say. He is also struggling…
Tagged with: angels, Christian beliefs, Emanuel Swedenborg, hell, hellfire, near-death experiences, reincarnation, spiritualism, the afterlife, the spiritual world, the world of spirits
Posted in The Afterlife
Posted in The Afterlife
Will We Remember Loved Ones Who Go to Hell?
What if someone we love goes to hell? Will we still remember them? Won’t that kind of suck? That is the essence of some questions that a reader named Max asked in several recent comment threads here on Spiritual Insights…
Tagged with: abusive relationships, family, friends, heaven, Heaven and Hell, hell, love, memory, the afterlife
Posted in The Afterlife
Posted in The Afterlife
The Spiritual Side of Suicide
“I’ve been spiraling for years and I tried to hang myself in my hotel last night.” That is the title of a message posted on Reddit two weeks ago by a professionally successful, financially secure 45-year-old man in a loving…
Tagged with: evil spirits, hell, psychology, selfishness, spiritual battles, spirituality, suicide, temptation, the afterlife, the purpose of life
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Spiritual Growth
Posted in Pain and Suffering, Spiritual Growth
Trials and Fermentations
The kingdom of heaven is like yeast that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour until all of it was leavened. (Matthew 13:33)
Tagged with: Emanuel Swedenborg, heaven, Heaven and Hell, hell, Parable of the Yeast, parables, Parables of the Kingdom, spiritual meaning, spiritual rebirth, Swedenborg, the Bible
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in Spiritual Growth, The Bible Re-Viewed
Response to a Christian Universalist: Is There an Eternal Hell? Wouldn’t an All-Powerful God Save All People?
Christian universalism is the belief that all people will eventually be reconciled to God and be saved, and that there is therefore no eternal hell. It is not the belief that salvation is available to all people if they choose…
Tagged with: angels, Catholicism, Christian universalism, Christianity, God, heaven, hell, salvation, the Bible, The Catholic Church, the spiritual world, universalism
Posted in All About God, The Afterlife
Posted in All About God, The Afterlife
Does John 3:18 Mean that All Non-Christians Go to Hell?
John 3:16. It’s everywhere. You even see it on placards at football games: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Then there’s…
Tagged with: belief, Christianity, damnation, faith, God, hell, Jesus Christ, non-Christians, salvation, the Bible
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
How Many Hells did Swedenborg Say there Are?
Question: In his essay “The Red Angel,” the British writer and literary critic G.K. Chesterton (1874–1936) wrote: If you keep bogies and goblins away from children they would make them up for themselves. One small child in the dark can invent more…
Tagged with: children, Emanuel Swedenborg, G.K. Chesterton, goblins, heaven, Heaven and Hell, hell, monsters, Swedenborg, the spiritual world
Posted in The Afterlife
Posted in The Afterlife
Did Jesus ever actually say, “If you don’t believe in me you will go to hell”?
The question is: Did Jesus ever actually say, “If you don’t believe in me you will go to hell”? Short answer: No, Jesus never actually said that. He did say some things that seem to imply it, and that are…
Tagged with: belief, faith, Gehenna, Hades, hell, Jesus Christ, religion, salvation, the Bible
Posted in The Afterlife, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Afterlife, The Bible Re-Viewed
Pain, Punishment, Prison, and Hell
In the course of a discussion on the recent article, “How Imagination and Fantasy Help our Spiritual Growth,” a reader named Frankly Frank said: “And hell is not a punishment”……. I dunno about that one, Lee. There are vivid accounts…
Tagged with: crime, Emanuel Swedenborg, evil, hardened criminals, hell, justice, pain, prison, punishment, recidivism, sin, the spiritual world
Posted in The Afterlife
Posted in The Afterlife
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