Rite & Reason: If our personal potential is not realised on earth surely it doesn’t disappear at death but becomes realisable in our next level of existence
Rite & Reason: If we fail to realise our personal potential on Earth, surely it becomes a possibility in the afterlife
But immediate eternal peace and happiness is not guaranteed to all – just to the blessed few. The vast majority must face a transitional state, not of peace and happiness, but of purgatorial punishment due to their sinful earthly lives. Again they must await the elusive promise of eternal peace and happiness in heaven. The unrepentant few will face the eternal fires of hell. Dante’s sign over the entrance to hell expresses its finality – “Abandon hope all you who enter”.
Why cannot change and growth which is such an essential feature of human life not be continued into our next level of existence? As few human beings will have achieved their full spiritual growth on Earth, it seems illogical that there will be no opportunity for their eternal growth in an afterlife. Why should it be extinguished in some purgatorial state? Newman’s dictum applies equally to all existence: “to live is to change and to be perfect is to have changed often”.
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