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Post by iagosan on Apr 2, 2024 18:24:09 GMT
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Post by homeschooldad on Apr 2, 2024 18:38:45 GMT
I can only hope and pray, that at the moment (or moments, as this article illustrates) of death, the soul is somehow given a kind of illumination, a full exposition of the truth of the Catholic Faith, a full exposition of what is right, what is wrong, and how they have fallen short (and who hasn't?), and given one last chance to repent and atone, and to accept the truth and repudiate error, before it's too late. Not to be gruesome, but it's not clear how that would work, if the unfortunate soul died in such a way that the body, or at least the brain, were destroyed in a matter of seconds. Sadly, that does happen, in accidents, in war, and so on. These are not pleasant things to think about, but we have to think about them, as death could come to any of us, at any time, without notice, and in any manner that Almighty God in His Providence disposes. We all need to spend at least a few moments a day, contemplating our own death, as though it could happen any second. Might take the bloom off the rose, might harsh the mellow, if one wishes to live a giddy, silly, happy-go-lucky life --- as so many do --- but better that, than to die unprepared. |
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Post by iagosan on Apr 2, 2024 19:07:03 GMT
I can only hope and pray, that at the moment (or moments, as this article illustrates) of death, the soul is somehow given a kind of illumination, a full exposition of the truth of the Catholic Faith, a full exposition of what is right, what is wrong, and how they have fallen short (and who hasn't?), and given one last chance to repent and atone, and to accept the truth and repudiate error, before it's too late. Not to be gruesome, but it's not clear how that would work, if the unfortunate soul died in such a way that the body, or at least the brain, were destroyed in a matter of seconds. Sadly, that does happen, in accidents, in war, and so on. These are not pleasant things to think about, but we have to think about them, as death could come to any of us, at any time, without notice, and in any manner that Almighty God in His Providence disposes. We all need to spend at least a few moments a day, contemplating our own death, as though it could happen any second. Might take the bloom off the rose, might harsh the mellow, if one wishes to live a giddy, silly, happy-go-lucky life --- as so many do --- but better that, than to die unprepared.
Well said!
"St John Vianney’s Exhortation on Death" This too, is well worth reading....
catholicismpure.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/st-john-vianneys-exhortation-on-death/
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Post by farronwolf on Apr 2, 2024 20:49:18 GMT
Being that the brain functions on electrical impulses, and after the body is "dead" the impulses don't simply just stop instantly, what people do or don't experience is pretty hard to say difinatively.
The three camps listed in the article are basing what they think is happening off of there own beliefs and experiences. But the brain is a tricky thing sometimes, so we won't ever know until it is too late to say for certain.
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