Eternity is a mystery to us, just like God is a mystery. He says what to do in the present-as if the present is where you find eternity-and I think that’s right. The rich young man asks about eternity, and Jesus tells him to give away his money. But I’ve read those verses a hundred times. Father Fergus says I have to believe that Jesus is talking about a literal heaven and hell, because that’s what the Church teaches. He seems to say that heaven is loving God and obeying the commandments, and hell is being lost in sin-forsaking God. And doesn’t that seem strange? If the afterlife is so important? When the rich young man asks Jesus how he might have eternal life, Jesus doesn’t give him a straight answer. But there’s not much in the Gospel about the afterlife-John is the only one who talks about it. Sin is real and God’s forgiveness is real. “To me, there’s nothing realer in the world than God, and Satan is no less real.
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