{"id":1622,"date":"2021-04-09T21:20:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T21:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2021-06-24T20:50:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T20:50:21","slug":"hell-is-not-eternal-unless-we-want-it-to-be-rev-hugh-odhner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/hell-is-not-eternal-unless-we-want-it-to-be-rev-hugh-odhner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hell Is Not Eternal &#8211; Unless We Want It To Be&#8221; &#8211; Rev. Hugh Odhner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"413\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/odhner-hell-pic.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/odhner-hell-pic.png 537w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/odhner-hell-pic-300x231.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In this Sermon, delivered at the Philadelphia Society of the Lord&#8217;s New Church, Rev. Hugh Odhner engages a theme that has occupied Swedenborgian theologians throughout the centuries: The question of the &#8220;Eternity of the Hells&#8221;. In Swedenborg&#8217;s cosmology, are hellish states static and eternal, or does the process of regeneration continue to draw us towards divine love and wisdom?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Click below<\/strong> for a printable PDF version of Rev. Odhner&#8217;s sermon:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Hell-is-Not-Eternal-Rev.-Hugh-Odhner-1.pdf\">Hell-is-Not-Eternal-Rev.-Hugh-Odhner<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/25961f8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/25961f8.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/25961f8-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Rev. Hugh Odhner is minister at the Lord\u2019s New Church Philadelphia Society. A bridge-builder between the different Swedenborgian branches, he has preached at several Convention ministries, including the Church of the Holy City in Washington, D.C., and has been a regular attendee and lecturer at Fryeburg New Church Assembly for many years. He lives with his wife Denise in Bryn Athyn, PA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this Sermon, delivered at the Philadelphia Society of the Lord&#8217;s New Church, Rev. Hugh Odhner engages a theme that has occupied Swedenborgian theologians throughout the centuries: The question of the &#8220;Eternity of the Hells&#8221;. In Swedenborg&#8217;s cosmology, are hellish states static and eternal, or does the process of regeneration continue to draw us towards &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/hell-is-not-eternal-unless-we-want-it-to-be-rev-hugh-odhner-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Hell Is Not Eternal &#8211; Unless We Want It To Be&#8221; &#8211; Rev. Hugh Odhner<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/odhner-hell-pic.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}