![]() ![]() ![]() What, then, does it mean to perish? It means to enter into the definite and never-ending suffering of hell caused by sin. He conquers sin by his obedience unto death, and he overcomes death by his Resurrection” (no. The mission of the only-begotten Son consists in conquering sin and death. These transcendental roots of evil are grounded in sin and death: for they are at the basis of the loss of eternal life. In his salvific mission, the Son must therefore strike evil right at its transcendental roots from which it develops in human history. The only-begotten Son was given to humanity primarily to protect man against this definitive evil and against definitive suffering. The opposite of salvation is not, therefore, only temporal suffering, any kind of suffering, but the definitive suffering: the loss of eternal life, being rejected by God, damnation. The Pope says: “Man” perishes” when he loses “eternal life”. According to the words spoken to Nicodemus, God gives his Son to ‘the world’ to free man from evil, which bears within itself the definitive and absolute perspective on suffering.” A few lines later the Pope specifically tells us what it means to perish. In answering this question the Pope first says, “Salvation means liberation from evil, and for this reason it is closely bound up with the problem of suffering. Saint Pope John Paul II (in his Apostolic Letter, SALVIFICI DOLORIS) has specifically addressed, in very sobering words, what it means to perish. ![]()
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