Suppose a
multiverse theory is true. Suppose further that a majority of these universes
are uninhabited, at least by rational beings. The following is pure
speculation, but it is something that occurred to me a few weeks ago in our
philosophy group that holds weekly meetings (well, we try to, anyway).
What if Hell
(that final place of everlasting punishment) is spatially extended? The general
Resurrection at the eschaton to which unbelievers will be raised includes,
obviously, their bodies. But then we have extension, and thus we have space.
What if Hell is just one of these universes, causally isolated from ours (and
any others), where no light reaches them, and they potentially may be isolated
from even each other? This may work by imagining each person alone in each
causally and physically isolated universe, where Hell becomes a person alone
with himself, and without the graces of God—getting what one wants.
Just a thought I
take to be interesting: Perhaps some of the multiverse was created for the
devil and his angels…
This is not speculation; it has to be true according to multiverse theory (which is nonsense).
ReplyDelete-Wm. Francis Brown
Forest, Virginia
Thanks for commenting! I am wondering, though: why does this account have to be true? Couldn't Hell be located in this particular universe, even if a multiverse theory were to be true? Or were you rather just intending to say multiverse theories are all false?
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