continuum
I remember seeing in our house a small heart-shaped magnet which carried the inscription: “A Mother’s Love is Forever...” It seems strange to think that according to traditional Christianity, God’s love for everyone won’t be forever. For how can we say that God still loves the soul that is "roasting and rotting" in Hell for All Eternity? Wouldn’t it be absurd to believe God still loves a soul, if at some point (any point) it has no chance - none - of Him allowing it to ever be reunited with Himself? And this is indeed the fate of many souls is it not? Evidently God’s love for his children, unlike a mother’s, does indeed have a limit. And there is a point (at our death for those who have rejected Him, or at some point thereafter) after which His love is no more, and the lost soul is banished from Him in judgment and wrath for Infinity. Who could possibly argue that after He has banished the soul from Himself forever, God still loves that soul? Or, is it possible that even in death, even in "Hell," that whatever degree or distance of separation the condemned soul is from God, that that soul will still be granted some capacity, however infinitely small, of ‘moving toward the light’ .. of turning toward Him. Perhaps "Hell" has a place on a kind of continuum of God’s Love, and though it might represent the farthest remove from Him, God will never not allow a soul to call out to Him and desire meaningfully to know of His mercy - nor will He permanently remove from that soul the capacity to do so. |
