How Heaven is Different From Hell

            My Angels told me that if we knew what heaven was like we would be falling all over ourselves trying to get in.  Heaven IS the opposite of hell.  If we knew what hell was like, we would do ANYTHING we could to avoid going there.  I would rather focus on heaven than focus on those who will be going to hell.  There is ONLY one way to get into heaven.  It’s not what we do, but it’s what we don’t do.  In order to get into heaven we only have to live and NOT purposely take a human life.  There are no formulas, rituals, or confessions we HAVE to do.  There are these that can make us feel good or feel better about ourselves, but there is nothing we HAVE to do for salvation.  We are born saved and lose our salvation by purposely taking a human life.  However, the Church generally teaches that we are born into moral depravity and we then HAVE to become saved and then salvation forgives EVERY sin including the sin of murder.

            It’s the sin of murder that disturbs me the most.  I hate to see Satan win.  He is the god of death and the ONLY way he feels he can defeat God is by using humans to take the lives of other humans.  And this is what bothers me the most.  I simply hate to see Satan win.  He uses the emotions of hatred, fear, and anger to do his bidding.  Depression is the reason for suicide and he uses that in his favor.  My Angels told me that Jesus died for EVERY sin EXCEPT for the sins of murder and suicide.  So, it’s not what we do for salvation but what we don’t do in order to lose our salvation.  This is why salvation is a free gift from God.  Otherwise, we are ALL sinners deserving of death.  No one is righteous.

            My Angels didn’t tell me what heaven was like.  They only told me that if we KNEW what it was like we would be falling all over ourselves trying to get in.  It’s hell we want to avoid.  Throughout human history there have been many ways that people have devised in order to avoid hell.  Actually, avoiding hell is easy.  But the path to heaven is straight and narrow.  Everyone at some point becomes angry enough to murder.  But my thinking about heaven is that whatever we can imagine it to be; it’s going to be even greater.  No imagination of ANY person can describe what heaven will be like.  I can’t explain to people how it is I don’t weep for those whom I know have NOT taken a human life and have passed from this world.  I can imagine that actually, there won’t be as many people in hell as many would suggest.  It might be simplistic to say that all we have to do is NOT purposely take a human life.  But how many times in your life have you actually thought about killing someone?  Restraint is the better part of valor.  But this isn’t how the world generally thinks either in terms of salvation or damnation.  It is too simple to say that all we have to do is NOT take a human life.  Now, all we have to do is live this way and our reward will be greater than all the imaginations of what heaven can be like put together.  And on the flip side, we can’t imagine the devastation of hell.  Whatever one imagines hell to be like, it will be worse.  Peace.  Brother Ralphie for The Angels of Life Institute