tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post6103660935948281799..comments2024-03-23T12:05:23.537-05:00Comments on The Wild Reed: When Love Entered HellMichael J. Baylyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03087458490602152648noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-92044726385119668552014-08-15T10:03:50.548-05:002014-08-15T10:03:50.548-05:00too much blah blah blah Philip... but God can'...too much blah blah blah Philip... but God can't enter hell is just a way to describe something. Opposites powers, Hell is Hell because of the pure absence of God. Heaven is the pure absence of Hell. The are the polar extremes of one another, if God went towards hell, hell would move the hell away from God. Neither would God force will or love upon another because that is not absolute love or free will. So what of God can go into hell and there redeem it? The very nature of God himself can be found in Hell. Why? Because all is God and love.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-13374438502215042022012-04-07T16:45:20.960-05:002012-04-07T16:45:20.960-05:00One point that should be made here is that traditi...One point that should be made here is that traditionally speaking, the Latin West has tend to put the majority of it's theological focus on Christ's death. Where as, the Greek speaking East has focused more on the Resurrection. It has been a point of tension between the two lungs of Christianity. <br /><br />I tend to disagree with the notion that God could not enter hell. That at least for me, walks dangerously close to separating Christ from the Divine Nature from His Human Nature. The Love of God in Jesus is not separate from the Person of Christ. They are linked and one and the same. <br /><br />The one danger in the idea of "Christ descending into hell to free the lost dead all the way to Adam" is Anti-Semitism. The danger there is to imply somehow that Christianity has superceeded Judaism. This is the kind of thing we want to avoid. At the same time, the Christian Faith is inseparable from our roots as noted in the Hebrew Scriptures. So that we celebrate the mystery of Christ freeing all the dead from our point of worship as Christians. <br /><br />The point I think could easily be made is do we want to focus all of our attention on what Christ did while in the tomb, or do we want to focus on the meaning of our Baptism which embraces what Christ did on the Cross, as well as when He rose from the dead?Br. Anselm Philip King-Lowe, OSBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02153443604460189234noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27612445.post-57156188011995138502012-04-07T10:39:14.112-05:002012-04-07T10:39:14.112-05:00What a revealing post. So much to meditate on.What a revealing post. So much to meditate on.brian gerardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08322449604483729842noreply@blogger.com