| MORE ON FREE WILL, CONSCIENCE AND JUDGMENT |
| 041. When God withdraws our soul from our body at our death, God judges the soul as to destination – heaven or hell. If God had not given us a free will, then judgment wouldn’t be necessary. Our soul would be ‘wired’ to do good deeds only – “not much glory in that for God”. With a conscience, we really are the ones who choose good or evil. Ultimately, the choice of heaven or hell is ours. God’s judgment verifies to us that we did the choosing. {There are souls who despise My graces as well as all the proofs of My love. They do not wish to hear My call, but proceed into the abyss of hell. The loss of these souls plunges Me into deadly sorrow. God though I am, I cannot help such a soul because it scorns Me; having a free will, it can spurn Me or love Me.” (Ref 01.Sec. 001.32 & 001.33) |
| 042. If we had no free will, there would be no Original Sin, no need for a Messiah, no sickness, no fights. With our preternatural intellect from Adam, unweakened by Original Sin, we could have a flying saucer in every garage. We would be travelers of the universe and experience the magnificence of God’s total creation. After all, why did God create the universe; “but to be the sphere of activity for humans”? If so, Adam was gifted with the smarts to build the means for all endeavors. |
| 043. We have heard of UFO’s near our planet, Earth. In fact, I have worked for a U. S. Air Force General who went on to head up the UFO Command. These UFO’s, if they really exist, seemed to have capabilities far beyond hopes of man ever achieving them, at least in this millennium. Wouldn’t this raise the possibility that another race of creatures were created that never defied God? |
| 044. As descendants of the fallen Adam and Eve we know the thrill of success and the agony of defeat. We know good actions bring glory to our friends, family and God, and brings rejection to the Devil. Defeat, whenever caused by an evil deed, brings shame to friends, family and God, malicious joy to the Devil. Were our first parents created with no free will, and innocent of the First Sin, then there would be no need for Devils to tempt the untemptable. Every person would a winner — no losers, no punishment, no glory to God. |
| 045. You can understand the enormity of the First Sin, and why God himself, after condemning Adam and Eve [and us]. He exiled them from the Garden of Eden and demoted them to a lower state of existence. He also promised atonement [redemption] for the First Sin. Man was forced to rely on the natural laws of God and of nature. This means that we must be tuned in to our conscience to guide us in doing good and avoiding evil. There will be a Judgment Day for us. Do we choose Heaven or Hell through our actions in life? |
| 046. When the soul leaves man, then death is easier to understand. Without the soul, our body decays. Our soul, which contains our store of intellectual data, is still active. This is important, because God judges our soul on our earthly performance. We have to be aware of what we did good and what we did evil. You know the phrase, “If you do the crime, you do the time!” To be judged guilty of crimes you have to know what the crimes are. [God is said to be all Just!] So our soul is not an inert immaterial object, like a football to be kicked without reason. Our sense phantasms are ‘interred with our bones’. Hopefully the ‘good lives after’.I believe that all men have eternal souls; including human embryo’s. I believe that all men, regardless of race, color or creed, will end up in Heaven or Hell. At Judgment, only souls who reject God’s mercy, will go to Hell. Those souls who have no temporal punishment due to sin will enter God’s presence. All other souls, who have temporal punishment due to sin, will first go to Purgatory, a part of Heaven before entering into God’s presence. All saved souls will see God as He wants them to see Him. I base my belief on the Natural Law, wherein God created man with eternal souls in His image and likeness to know , love and serve God here; and be with Him in the hereafter. |
| 047. God, being all Just, would likely, before sentencing, give the sinner a chance to answer to the charges. Our responses would be considered before judgment is handed down – Heaven or Hell. If you curse the Judge, you are instant toast in Hell where you can commiserate with the Devil for eternity. If you express sorrow and plead for mercy, then God, the King of Divine Mercy, determines the length of temporal punishment, if any. If there is temporal punishment, then off you go to Purgatory for you to be purged of evil thoughts, words, and deeds. If your temporal punishment is forgiven, off you go to the House of your Father. In the end it is either Hell or Heaven. |
| 048. For those souls, without sin, they are instantly embraced and brought to the House of their Father. In all cases, from embryo to old age, your soul sees God as He wants you to see Him. For some souls it is described as The Beatific Vision by the Catholic Church. However the souls of man, created by God, have Heaven or Hell as an ultimate destination, whether Catholic or not. To make a point, those souls before Abraham are in heaven or hell. The content of this vision of God? It’s the analogy of the glass being full, but there are different size glasses; and God fills the glass. |
| 049. Now we have God and His saintly souls in His House and the communications among souls could be “deafening”, or would it be. Maybe you are so perfectly happy; there is no need to communicate. If our intellect and will have achieved perfection, is there a suspension of cognitive activity? Is puzzlement! Add to this the good angels. More puzzlement! |
| 050. What about the souls in Hell, including bad angels and bad people. Are their souls frozen, inactive? Do you think God ‘pulled their plug’? I do not think so. I think we can assume there is communication and cognition among all in Hell. After all, people know after death what their crimes were on earth. Now the souls in Hell can remember their crimes and react in the knowledge that their punishment is eternal. Every function of their souls that sinned will be punished with no purging. In Heaven the souls have their own merited vision of God. |
| 051. What vision will these God haters have? Revelations, describing what the souls in Hell will experience, God gave to St. Faustina, [she recorded them on October 20 1936 In her daily journal for the whole world to know]. Having read these words, I, myself, have set my sights on getting to Heaven “God’s way”. Ref. 01, Sec. 001.50 thru 001.52 – p.296ff – [Saint Faustina ] “Today I was led by an angel to the chasms of Hell. It is a place of great torture; how awesomely large and extensive it is! The kinds of tortures I saw: (1) the first torture that constitutes Hell is the loss of God; (2) the second is perpetual remorse of conscience; (3) the third is that one’s condition will never change; (4) the fourth is the fire that will penetrate the soul without destroying it — a terrible suffering, since it is a purely spiritual fire, lit by God’s anger; (5) the fifth torture is continual darkness, and a terrible suffocating smell, and, despite the darkness, the devils and the souls of the damned see each other and all the evil, both of others and their own; (6) the sixth torture is the constant company of Satan; (7) the seventh torture is horrible despair, hatred of God, vile words, curses and blasphemies. These are the tortures suffered by all the damned together, but that is not the end of the sufferings. These are special tortures destined for particular souls. |
| 052. Let us continue examining the language of the eternal and immaterial soul. We can describe, from the communications of these souls, the cognitive functions, the need for memory to store knowledge. However we can’t touch, feel, measure, examine the information. It’s like we can not show the idea of a line, triangle, leaf, color itself. We can show a concrete example; but never an immaterial idea in concrete form. I can only say that man can not know the language of a soul; but you know it exists because of its effects. This argument also pertains to the existence of God and angels. |
| 053. As far as to the nature of our free will: “There are 3 degrees in the accomplishment of God’s will: (1) the soul carries out all rules and statutes pertaining to external observance; (2) the soul accepts interior inspirations and carries them out faithfully; (3) the soul, abandoned to the will of God, allows Him to dispose of it freely, and God does with it as He pleases, and it is a docile tool in His hands. Ref. 01, Sec. 001.34 These words were spoken by God through the Confessor to Saint Faustina. At level one, which all start out on, we need to obey the guidance of our conscience. These laws were externally passed on to us by Moses and then by Christ and His Church. |
| 054. Level 2, of free will, is achieved by a person who is really tuned into the language of the soul and can discern the promptings and guidance of internal inspirations. This person will have the power of discerning the source of these inspirations as being Divine or Devilish; and choose the promptings of God. These Divine promptings are often in conflict with our “druthers”, which causes much internal conflict with our own views or those internal devilish urgings. One often feels pain at the thought of following the Will of God rather than our own. Among the many writings concerning this dilemma is “The Hound of Heaven”: Ah! must Thou char the wood ere Thou canst limn with it? Ref #05.00, ln. 135 This level is very difficult when we try to break an evil habit. It is painful to change when the habit gratifies us so much. However, the pain is our down payment on our atonement for our sins. |
| 055. Level 3 is right up there with heroic service to our Creator. I, myself, would be very fearful, probably from cowardice and my reluctance to give up my favorite selfish attachments to worldly things, to be so heroic. After all, it is very difficult to break attachment to worldly pleasures and submit your will totally to the Will of God. |
