{"id":672,"date":"2017-11-09T23:15:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T23:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/?p=672"},"modified":"2019-05-28T22:31:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T22:31:56","slug":"hell-is-not-eternal-unless-we-want-it-to-be-rev-hugh-odhner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/hell-is-not-eternal-unless-we-want-it-to-be-rev-hugh-odhner\/","title":{"rendered":"“Hell is Not Eternal – Unless We Want It to Be” – Rev. Hugh Odhner"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this Sermon, delivered at the Philadelphia Society of the Lord’s New Church, Rev. Hugh Odhner engages a theme that has occupied Swedenborgian theologians throughout the centuries: The question of the “Eternity of the Hells”. In Swedenborg’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

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Click below for a printable PDF version of Rev. Odhner’s sermon:<\/p>\n

Hell is Not Eternal – Rev. Hugh Odhner<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"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

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  In this Sermon, delivered at the Philadelphia Society of the Lord’s New Church, Rev. Hugh Odhner engages a theme that has occupied Swedenborgian theologians throughout the centuries: The question of the “Eternity of the Hells”. In Swedenborg’s cosmology, are hellish states static and eternal, or does the process of regeneration continue to draw us …<\/p>\n

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