DaBears wrote on Mar 18th, 2007 at 7:50pm:Back to the topic, why would there be an unforgiveable sin, when hell is not eternal?
maybe because all suffering stems from a heavy load of guilt and some just can't bear the guilt and so we call this hell. remember we are going from the premise that you have to forgive yourself your misdeeds in order to get out of hell. maybe this is so hard to do for some that they require lots of assistance and get locked into the guilt and it's like having tar stuck on your soul.
I have heard of rare instances where the realization of what has been done has caused so much suffering that this one would be recycled in painless manner, or unredeemable; perhaps because they enjoyed so much a playground of slaughter they were in...
theres two types of sin or error which cause guilt and suffering:
1) unintentional harm to life, from ignorance, or ignoring the love your neighbor concept:
2) base, primal selfish intentional harm, such as serial killers would perform. This would be construed as having the "intent." having the intent means they took a perverse pleasure out of harming life, whereas the other type of error or sin had no pleasure in their misdeeds and thought it was the right thing to do.
or you might say those in the intentional category, which you must admit are rare considering our large population, you could say these others knew what they were doing was wrong, yet went right ahead and did it. these would be cloistered upon death and when their sin or guilt was provided to them to hear the crys of those injured upon their own persons, they might not be able to face up to guilt and opt out, if they even have that choice. I don't know that they would have a choice if there was no mercy or compassion in their heart at all.
but it's supposed to be so rare, and I don't go into those hells for exploration purposes, as I never considered I needed to go take a look. the ones I retrieve who are criminals always have the spark of divinity in them and these are easy retrievals.
matter of fact I never met a criminal that I didn't like, some of them are like robin hoods in disguise. they think they are right, but we're not the judges except on this earth, we are the judge and jury, not on the inner planes..thats a higher order we can only conjecture on. The guilt is in everyone of us though, to some degree, we may feel separated from our creator here, and this sets up automatically that we must have done something wrong to find ourselves in a flesh and blood body where we struggle and strive just to get back to god. We can reach god consciousness here, a sense of no separation from god, or all that is, or our completed tasks done. we can, because we have our avatars and teachers who showed us that we can.
love to you, such an enquiring young man! my goodness, I love to see you here. alysia