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Max Leyf's avatar

“some parts of us cannot be saved.”

I think this is definitely right. I would go further and say that during life, the vices are already present as Hell in us and the virtues as Heaven.

Death or the eschaton is a reversal or “turning-inside-out.” Then we are either caught up into Heaven or cast like into the unquenchable fire where there will be a wailing and gnashing of teeth.

It is already foregone that our vices will be committed to the flames and the Last Judgment consists in whether we go with them—that is, whether we cling to them whether we allow our chaff to be winnowed from kernels, as it were.

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Laeth's avatar

agreed

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