Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity

sprinkleeninow

(20,546 posts) Tue May 25, 2021, 02:53 AM May 2021

Orthodox Christianity: 'A New Heaven and a New Earth'

'A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH’

Paradise is not a place, it is rather a state of the soul. Just as Hell is a suffering on account of the impossibility to love, Paradise is bliss that derives from the abundance of love and light. He who has been united to Christ participates completely and integrally in Paradise. The Greek word paradeisos signifies both the garden of Eden, where primordial man was placed, and the age to come, where those people who have been redeemed and saved by Christ taste eternal blessing. It can also be applied to the final stage of human history, when all creation will be transformed, and God will be ‘all in all’. The blessing of Paradise is also called in Christian tradition ‘the Kingdom of heaven’, ‘the life of the age to come’, ‘the eighth day’, ‘a new heaven’, ‘the heavenly Jerusalem’.

More at: An Orthodox Catechism | St. Michael's Orthodox Church

https://www.stmichaelsgeneva.org/orthodoxcatechism

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Orthodox Christianity: 'A New Heaven and a New Earth' (Original Post) sprinkleeninow May 2021 OP

Any mention of "new Purgatory" or "new Limbo"...? griloco May 2021 #1

There would not be. sprinkleeninow May 2021 #2

Perhaps I'm just easily entertained. jaxexpat May 2021 #3

It's one's sole determination to believe or not. sprinkleeninow May 2021 #4

Is faith an addictive compulsion? jaxexpat May 2021 #6

Perhaps it can be if debased. sprinkleeninow May 2021 #7

Peace be with you. jaxexpat May 2021 #8

Peace be to you as well. sprinkleeninow May 2021 #9

Attempting to 'enforce'? sprinkleeninow May 2021 #5

griloco

(842 posts)

1. Any mention of "new Purgatory" or "new Limbo"...?

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Original post)

Tue May 25, 2021, 06:01 AM

May 2021

sprinkleeninow

(20,546 posts)

2. There would not be.

Reply to griloco (Reply #1)

Tue May 25, 2021, 06:18 AM

May 2021

jaxexpat

(7,785 posts)

3. Perhaps I'm just easily entertained.

Reply to sprinkleeninow (Original post)

Tue May 25, 2021, 06:18 AM

May 2021

But I find it fascinating, the notions people invent from whole cloth, confer universal acquiescence, codify and then attempt to enforce. It's the story of "civilizations" in a nutshell. Belief systems centered around preserving the remnants of some ancient's fever dreams are high maintenance items. Predicting the future based on spiritual concepts is a fools errand. Just ask god.