Theos-Talk Archives (April 1998 Message tt00276)

>Jerry Schueler <gschueler@netgsi.com> writes
>> The Christian desires paradise
>>and the avoidance of hell. It can't be done. Both have to go.
>
>Nice idea! In my view, however, we are already living in hell, and
>cannot avoid it. Paradise is an altered state usually only attainable
after
>physical death. Having said all that, there remains the vexing question of
>definition of the terms used!
>
>Alan

Alan, I have no problem with the idea of this Earth being hell, and
the after-life being heaven. Again, you just can't have one without
the other--thus the necessity of reincarnation or a need to cycle
back and forth between the two until both are transcended.

Jerry S.